It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

While the story meanders and wavers,and at times seems like a quick spin off of "Gone with the Wind", some of the scenes and closeups with Ava Gardner are lovely and amazing.Robert Mitchum as a research physician studying at Tulane;Gardner the unrequited love who delivers a letter to him before he leaves to go up north. Mitchum returns to New Orleans with a new brassy blonde in tow. She is clearly an opportunist who wants Mitchum for his future fortune, unlike Ava who claims to truly love him.She uses an ill-gotten inheritance to tempt him, there is a scandal and she indeed reminds us of Scarlett O'Hara.This film also reminds one of "Raintree County" another imitation of "Gone with the Wind" with Elizabeth Taylor as the set-piece.ThIs film though has several nice sets of Old New Orleans,the manners and customs and varied cultures,and with the lovely Gardner in several memorable shots, is well worth a look.

What were Robert Mitchm, Ava Gardner, and Melvyn Douglas doing in this film? It almost seems like a throwaway - I mean, it's 70 minutes long! Seventy minutes makes for a fairly sketchy story, which "My Forbidden Past" certainly is. It's the story of a young woman, Barbara Beaurevel (Gardner) in love with a doctor, Mark Lucas (Mitchum), who goes to South America for two months. He wants her to come along and be married on the ship, but her cousin Paul (Douglas) keeps her from doing so and never delivers the letter to Mark that says she'll wait for him. When he comes home, he has a wife (Janis Carter).Having inherited a huge amount of money from her scandalous grandmother (I'm guessing she ran a gambling establishment and was maybe a prostitute), Barbara offers Paul $50,000 if he can seduce Mark's opportunistic wife.I have to admit that I wasn't interested in any of these characters. Ava is beautiful, and that's about it. Hughes apparently borrowed Ava Gardner for this film. She wrote in her autobiography that he was always after her and gave her an expensive ring. She threw it out the window, only to regret it later on when she had no money. I'd say this film evens things out. Robert Mitchum didn't seem terribly interested to me, he sort of meanders through. Janis Carter is very good - beautiful and feisty. For some reason, her energy doesn't seem out of place, but Melvyn Douglas' does. I think he knew it was a bad script and just went for it full out, where Carter was still trying to build her reputation as an actress.Disappointing.

I saw this movie more than any other movie ever..No I'm not sick ,is just that this is a classic of private television and it's programmed at least once a month..so!The First time I saw it, I was ten,I already understood that was something absurd in the plot,like they had to invent something to take apart hot Ava and lusty Mitchum until the end and so there's all that absurd affair between his ugly cousin and the Rita Hayworth of the poor man wife.The lines of Mitchum are one more cynic than the other (not for nothing he was Mitchum!),Ava is beautiful ,the clothes of the two girls too and..that's all!This movie makes really no sense .I'll give a 5,just because of How am I affectioned to it,but it's a clear 3

This is a dark, noir, B-movie. If you like the genre you shouldn't miss this one. Gardner is good as the deceitful southern belle, and Mitchum is mysterious and handsome as the doctor. Its not outstanding, but it is intriguing to see the stars together (lovers in real life) and knowing its a rare film makes it all the more interesting. Catch it on the classic movie channel.