Random Harvest

Random Harvest (1942)

  • 89% of critics liked it
    (9 reviews)

  • 90% of users liked it
    (2,659 ratings)

At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no identity and no next of kin, he has nowhere else to go. Unable to stand the loneliness, Colman wanders into the streets, then stumbles into a music hall, where he is befriended by… More

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Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Claudine West, George Froeschel, Arthur Wimperis
Genres
Drama, Classics
In Theaters
Dec 17, 1942 Wide
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    LeRoy's schmaltzy and literary romantic melodrama, about a WWI vet who suffers from amnesia, was a huge commercial hit due to Greer Garson and Ronald Colman's acting and the fact that it was released in the midst of WWII.

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    Dated, but still moving '40s classic with Garson and Colman.

  • Michael W. Phillips, Jr., Goatdog's Movies

    Parts of it are tender and beautiful, but other parts are overplayed, maudlin, and about as subtle as a clunk on the head or a taxi across the sternum.

  • John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

    ...a remarkable story of love and devotion, patience and endurance, an original and fascinating motion picture.

  • John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

    ...it is the kind of love-found, love-lost, love-found tale that appeals to most anyone's sense of romanticism, nostalgia, and fair play.

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  • Spencer S


    This has got to be the most depressing movie I have ever seen. Not in a bad way either. Beautiful film, with the stellar grace of Greer Garson and the fumblings of Ronald Colman, it's the most romantic movies that doubles as a tear jerker that I have ever watched.

  • Stella D


    the plot of this film is completely ridiculous. it's a big soapy melodrama and really not my kind of thing. however i feel compelled to keep watching...i can't explain...you'll just have to see for yourself

  • Mason W


    This MGM film with Greer Garson and Ronald Colman is a wonderful drama/romance. The story of an ill man that looses his memory and falls madly in love with a showgirl to only loose it again. Is love powerful ebough to regain these emotions and find each other again?!

  • jay n


    The acting is good but the story is hard to believe at best.

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