Now, Voyager

"It happens in the best of families. But you'd never think it could happen to her!"

1942 1h 57m EN

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7.4

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★7.4TMDB · 242

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Synopsis

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A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

“It happens in the best of families. But you'd never think it could happen to her!”

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Cast

Bette Davis
Charlotte Vale
Paul Henreid
Jeremiah 'Jerry' Duvaux Durrance
Claude Rains
Dr. Jaquith
Gladys Cooper
Mrs. Henry Vale
Bonita Granville
June Vale
John Loder
Elliot Livingston
Ilka Chase
Lisa Vale
Lee Patrick
Deb McIntyre

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Irving Rapper
Writers: Casey Robinson
Languages: English, Portuguese
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.9M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.8× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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84 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Portuguese.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Irving Rapper, shot by Sol Polito. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Max Steiner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Warren Low shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Bette Davis and Paul Henreid and Claude Rains carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Irving Rapper directs. Sol Polito behind the camera. Max Steiner scores. Warren Low cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Portuguese.

Trivia

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1Shot for just $0.9M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Made its money back 4.8× over at the box office.
384 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
4Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Portuguese.
5Directed by Irving Rapper, shot by Sol Polito. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Max Steiner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Warren Low shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Bette Davis and Paul Henreid and Claude Rains carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "It happens in the best of families. But you'd never think it could happen to her!".
10IMDB entry: tt0035140 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 12 themes, including "transformation", "cruise", "buenos aires, argentina", "love".

The technical file

Cinematography: Sol Polito
Original score: Max Steiner
Editing: Warren Low
Costume design: Orry-Kelly
Makeup / hair: Perc Westmore
Runtime: 117 min · 1h 57m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $877,000
Box office: $4,177,000
Return: 476% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Now, Voyager (1942)

Awards

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

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CinemaSerf2022-06-26
★ 8/10
Bette Davis at her best took some beating, and here is one such an example. Together with expertly delivered performances from Claude Rains and Gladys Cooper we are presented with an emotional roller-coaster of a film. Davis starts as the hen-pecked daughter of Cooper, until she encounters Rains' "Dr. Jaquith" who decides that he may be able to help this erstwhile shy spinster find herself a little purpose in life. She is despatched on a cruise liner where she meets the married "Jerry" (Paul Henried) and though there is a semblance of a romance, it can come to nothing and it is only after a long, occasionally torrid but always riveting series of scenarios, that we begin to arrive at anything that might resemble a conclusion. Irving Rapper does really well to allow Max Steiner's score and an excellent Casey Robinson screenplay to empower his stars to create and develop characters in whom - especially Davis - we can readily invest. I have never been Henreid's biggest fan, I always found him just a little bit insipid, but he works well here as does a really on form Cooper in the role of her mother. Seen very recently on a big screen again after almost 80 years, and it has lost none of it's style, panache and wonderfully paced sense of the dramatic. Great stuff!

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