So Little Time (1952)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I have just finished the excellent autobiography by Oswald Morris who was the Director of Photography on this film.He does a really excellent job,and is the only noteworthy aspect of this risible story.It stretches credulity beyond breaking point to believe that Goring would have a relationship with Schell.Goring is quite good as the officer but Schell is quite wearing as the girl.

(Warning: Some viewers will be disturbed that the following words of mine aren't exactly a review, and they start on-topic but then go tangential for a while.)For the record: Even as I peck at my keyboard now, Australia's digital television channel Gem is showing the original undamaged English-dialogue version of _So Little Time_ (Gem's timetable labels it as a "premiere", whatever that means). Thanks, Nine Network—you're a jewel for visiting some dungeon of a vault to grant brief parole to this engrossing movie.BTW-1: Barbara Mullen's Anna brings to my mind's eye and ear BM's Janet MacPherson, who in all 191 (! but not as many as _Wagon Train_) episodes of the BBC's black-and-white television series _Dr Finlay's Casebook_ between 1962 and 1971 keeps house for Andrew Cruickshank's Dr Cameron and Bill Simpson's Dr Finlay. Now, _that's_ a gem that seems to have disappeared from the world's living-rooms. If we can be fed umpteen black-and-white episodes of _Wagon Train_, enjoyable enough though they are, then perhaps we should also be prescribed at least one repeat dose of television's first series of A J Cronin's classic tales from Arden House in interbellum Scotland.BTW-2: _So Little Time_ seems to evade the radar of Leonard Maltin, but not of Halliwell.

First i am happy to find a lot of people who are so fond of this film like me!Since years I try to get it in the original English synchronized version,because the German synchronized is,except M.Schell ,with strange and silly voices and stiff dialogs.I am so much interested in hearing the real voice of Marius Goring,and I cannot understand,why he did not speak the German version himself,although he did speak so fluently and without an accent!Both main actors are extremely good in this film ,and all the others too,to my opinion.Iwould be very happy,if I could get an English DVD ,but to get it in Germany is nearly impossible!! Jutta Dreesen

How sad that this film appears to have been lost - how do you "lose" such an good film?I too have only seen it once, on television - was it in the seventies? But I've never forgotten it, and always kept an eye out for it to appear on television again, especially since the advent of cable, or in video stores, but it has eluded me.I've always liked Marius Goring's work - yes, I fell in love with him in The Red Shoes - but this film was particularly strong in both story- line and casting. I've always preferred black and white film for drama, and it was just right for this romantic and ultimately tragic story.I'm rating it high, although I saw it so long ago and can't remember details, but for any film to have had such an impact that one can't forget it decades later after one viewing, means it deserves the highest rating.