Escape Me Never (1947)

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

One of the worst movies of Errol Flynn's career. A terrible soaper with Flynn as a composer who strings along a young widowed mother (a painfully miscast Ida Lupino) while romancing his brother's ex-girlfriend, wealthy Eleanor Parker. There's melodramatic "romance," tired class clichés, a couple of forgettable songs, and even a dead baby to keep things light. It's all overwrought with some of the most unlikable characters I've seen any of these actors play. The movie does have one thing going for it -- it's the last movie scored by the great Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Unfortunately that's not enough to save it from being the forgettable piece of mediocrity that it is. Escape Me Never is an adaptation of a play of the same name. It was apparently made into a film before, in 1935, but I haven't seen that nor do I have any intention to. I'm not big on soaps and I only tried this one out due to Flynn. Very disappointing.

The film gets going awfully late and that's only when Ida Lupino is able to pour it on in her usual excitable way.Through an error the Eleanor Parker-Gig Young relationship is curtailed when Eleanor falls for brother Errol Flynn. Both men in the field of music are quite different from each other. Flynn, hoping to compose an opera, takes in Ida Lupino with a young baby. With the right brakes thanks to Parker, it appears that Flynn, who has now wed the Lupino character, will get his opera made. The falling apart of that project brings everyone to a downward spiral. Flynn leaves Lupino for Parker and tragedy comes to the Lupino infant.Of course, Flynn eventually realizes that Parker is not the woman for him as the film ends.It is only Lupino's performance that saves this somewhat. Flynn is terribly miscast and Eleanor Parker, again proves how selfish she could be in motion pictures. Young is rather benign in his part of Parker's suitor.

For big fans of Errol and big fans of period romance musical comedy/drama combo,this movie will deliver the goods.The story hits the spot for the genre.Very good music,very good cast and acting as well.What kpt this movie from becoming a classic though was the low budget and average directing.The cinematography was also below average.But still,Errol Flynn is so charming here as usual and for the right audience,it's still a winner.This film was unfairly under rated due to the dreaded anti-Flynn syndrome bandwagon......

It's not a comedy but if you don't laugh, you will be wondering why you continued to sit through this till the very end. Errol Flynn carried this film most of the way with his usual charm but even he can't perform lazarus on such a poorly written screenplay. Peter Godfrey didn't help either. Perhaps he had fallen asleep while directing this piece. Having said that, it has a great cast of actors and actresses. Lupino is a good actress but I felt she was badly miscast in this film. What a pity though because the idea was good and it had potential.