Didn't John Payne and Maureen O'Hara make a cute couple in Miracle on 34th Street? If you thought so, you'll be happy to hear they made three other movies together! In Sentimental Journey, they play a devoted married couple. Maureen wants a child, but John sweetly asks, "What's the matter, Mom? Have I gotten too big?" Mama Maureen meets a young orphan, Connie Marshall, and completely falls in love with her. They adopt Connie, but she and her new dad don't exactly hit it off.
John Payne gives a wonderfully layered performance in Sentimental Journey. It's always more heart wrenching to see a man cry than a woman, isn't it? In this very heavy tearjerker, John sheds just as many tears as he inspires from the audience. He blends wonderfully with everyone in the cast; he and Maureen have a lovely and comfortable rapport as husband and wife, he and Connie enjoy a very special relationship, and he and William Bendix really seem like lifelong friends.
Connie, a very talented child actress, shows her incredible chops in only her second movie. She's simultaneously childlike yet mature, a dreamer but wise in practical matters, and above all, darling and endearing. I don't even like children, and even I was won over by her sweetness. The next time you're in the mood for a good cry, rent Sentimental Journey. From then on, you'll start blubbering at the suggestion of breakfast in bed, I guarantee it.
John Payne gives a wonderfully layered performance in Sentimental Journey. It's always more heart wrenching to see a man cry than a woman, isn't it? In this very heavy tearjerker, John sheds just as many tears as he inspires from the audience. He blends wonderfully with everyone in the cast; he and Maureen have a lovely and comfortable rapport as husband and wife, he and Connie enjoy a very special relationship, and he and William Bendix really seem like lifelong friends.
Connie, a very talented child actress, shows her incredible chops in only her second movie. She's simultaneously childlike yet mature, a dreamer but wise in practical matters, and above all, darling and endearing. I don't even like children, and even I was won over by her sweetness. The next time you're in the mood for a good cry, rent Sentimental Journey. From then on, you'll start blubbering at the suggestion of breakfast in bed, I guarantee it.