Sorry, this movie sucks

good back-story, and good acting

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

. . . we may have gotten something interesting here along the lines of CHAIN LIGHTNING, instead of warmed-up (and second rate) George Bernard Shaw Battle-of-the-Sexes leftovers in an WITHOUT LOVE so stagy that viewers keep waiting for curtains to fall (and when one finally does, it simply gets I-Love-Lucy dusty!). A few folks claim that MGM crammed Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn into so many movies together that they eventually developed some "chemistry." That would be hard to prove if WITHOUT LOVE was your main lab result, since it smacks of an experiment gone wrong. Besides a lack of sparks developing between any of the half dozen leads, WITHOUT LOVE features a plot holier than Mr. Bin Laden after S.E.A.L. Team Six was finished with him. If Warner Bros.' CASABLANCA is the textbook example of how to make a Wartime Romance Flick, WITHOUT LOVE seems to be MGM's effort to do the opposite. At least Lauren Bacall gives Humphrey Bogart whistling lessons in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. All Kate teaches Spence here is how to sleepwalk.

The problem I have with this movie as well as a few other Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy pairings is how she knuckles under his chauvinism. Sure, it was the way it was back in the day but this is the pants- wearing feminist Katharine Hepburn. Her personality is as big as her talent and in such movies, the two just don't mesh. As such, try as I might to look past it, I can't appreciate some of her movies as much as I want to.Without Love is otherwise a pleasant enough movie with a similar plot to The Mirror Has Two Faces, in which two people marry for convenience and wind up falling for each other (though of course the woman has secretly loved the man all along). But unlike the latter movie, the man doesn't come crawling back once he realizes he's lost the woman he loves. Tracy somewhat ambles back and it's a whole lot less satisfying than Jeff Bridges standing below Barbra Streisand's apartment building yelling how much he loves her. Lucille Ball's in this movie too but she doesn't get too much screen time, naturally, though at least she gets to wisecrack a bit.It's a little sad when I realize that Tracy's pet dog was the best thing in this movie. Asta the terrier from The Thin Man was cute too but in that movie he served as a foil to the ace pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy.

This is an excellent vehicle for Tracy-Hepburn, not their best but darn close to it. Cleverly made comedy.The whole cast is just fine, but I think this is Lucille Ball's all-time best feature film performance. She didn't have much opportunity for high-brow sophisticated parts, and as Kitty, the real estate agent and love interest for Keynan Wynn, Ball is just wonderful. What a shame she didn't get parts like this very often.Direction and set design is typical of MGM's best of the 1940's.Nifty film.....now if Warner Home Video would get around to releasing it on DVD, I'd be a happy camper.

i was able to see this movie for the first time over the weekend & have to say that i immediately fell in love with it. the tenderness of both characters & understanding of each other's problems showed how in love might grow to being in love so deeply.the love of the characters was not based on sexual situations or any of the vulgar material that is produced today, although they were deeply attracted to each other, first mentally and then physically.i truly wish that they would release this film so that i could get a copy of it. it is one of the best, sweetest romances i have seen in a long time.