Till the End of Time (1946)

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Sometimes dismissed as a derivation of Samuel Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives, RKO Radio's superb Till the End of Time was actually based on Niven Busch's novel They Dream of Home, and was completed and released several months before the Goldwyn film. The story concentrates on three… More Sometimes dismissed as a derivation of Samuel Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives, RKO Radio's superb Till the End of Time was actually based on Niven Busch's novel They Dream of Home, and was completed and released several months before the Goldwyn film. The story concentrates on three ex-marines: Cliff Harper (Guy Madison), Bill Tabeshaw (Robert Mitchum) and Perry Kincheloe (Bill Williams). Harper falls in love with emotionally distraught war widow Pat Ruscomb (Dorothy McGuire); Tabeshaw endures one disappointment after another as he tries to buy his own ranch; and Kincheloe, rendered legless by the war, intends to spend the rest of his life wallowing in self-pity. All three men find a new lease on life when they engage in a cathartic barroom brawl against a bigoted group of self-styled patriots led by hate-spouting Ray Teal (forever typecast as rabid racists during the postwar years). It was this climactic scene, which remains the most memorable aspect of Till the End of Time (outside of its Chopin-inspired theme song) that caused a lot of headaches for producer Dore Schary, screenwriter Allen Rivkin and director Edward Dmytryk during the House Unamerican Activities hearings a few years later: what was accepted as pro-American in 1946 would soon be labelled "Pinko" by the anti-Red zealots. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.
Directed By: Edward Dmytryk
Written By: Allen Rivkin
Genres: Drama, Romance

Critic Reviews

Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A tepid post-war romantic drama.

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Cast

            Dorothy McGuire as Pat Ruscomb

            Guy Madison as Cliff Harper

            Robert Mitchum as William Tabeshaw

            Bill Williams as Perry Kincheloe

            Tom Tully as C.W. Harper

            William Gargan as Sgt. Gunny Watrous

            Jean Porter as Helen Ingersoll

            Johnny Sands as Tommy Hendricks

            Loren Tindall as Pinky

            Ruth Nelson as Amy Harper

            Selena Royle as Mrs. Kincheloe

            Harry von Zell as Scuffy

            Richard Benedict as Boy from Idaho

            Paul Birch as Serviceman

            Ellen Corby as Mrs. Sumpter

            William Forrest as Detective Lieutenant

            Harry Hayden as Ed Tompkins

            Frederic Howard as Zeke Ingersoll

            Teddy Infur as Freddie Stewart

            Stan Johnson as Capt. Jack Winthrop

            Robert Lowell as Epstein

            Anthony Marsh
            
            William Newell as Warrant Officer

            Dick Tyler as Jimmy Kincheloe

            Margaret Wells as Mrs. Ingersoll

            Mary Worth as Mrs. Tompkins

            Blake Edwards as Foreman

            Jack Parker as Collector

            Harold Kruger as Practical Life Guard

            John Bailey
            
            John S. Roberts
            
            Eddie Craven as Waiter

            Michael Kostrick as Interviewer

            Peter Varney as Franks

            Tim Ryan as Steve Sumpter
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