In Our Time

Sadly wasted cast, all of whom are beaten by a script that doesn't know where it's going and leaves you wondering where you have been. Just when you get ready to hate a villain, they turn out to be a... Full review

Just finished a movie with Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid called "In Our Time" (1944). I enjoyed it. It concerns Jennifer Whittredge (Ida) the secretary to a bonbon eating British antique buyer. On a trip to Poland, Jenny meets Count... Full review

Ida Lupino gave an outstanding performance as Jennifer Whittredge who is a young British lady who is a companion for a rich lady who loves to eat candy all day long and looks like it. Jennifer visits Poland in 1939... Full review

A bit slow moving but nonetheless interesting. The only thing missing is Maria Ouspenskaya stirring a boiling cauldron.Paul Henried and Ida Lupino fall in love near Warsaw. She's a British commoner employed by a fancy English antique collector. Paul and... Full review

Vincent Sherman's "In Our Time" tries to do for Poland what "Mrs. Miniver" did for England: raise American awareness to the plight of a European nation besieged by the Nazis. Unfortunately, the film wanders all over the hack-writing map from... Full review

IDA LUPINO is a British young woman visiting Poland and acting as a companion to MARY BOLAND, a wealthy woman fond of collecting antiques. At an antique shop, Ida runs into PAUL HENRIED, who thinks she works at the store.... Full review

The slaughter of the Poles who believed that tradition and opinion would save them from the aggressors. How like the current day appeasers who believe that Islamic terrorists would allow us to continue what they view as a decadent culture.... Full review

The main reason why I was interested in watching this was how a Hollywood movie made in 1944 would handle the invasion of Poland. Afterall the Soviets were now our Allie. Well Hollywood took the easy way out and didn't... Full review

As an actress, Ida Lupino achieved success in the 40's acting alongside Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson. For me, she was a totally average actress. As a director, she had more substance to offer in the 50's and 60's,... Full review

It is an injustice of history that René Burri's 1963 photograph of a dashing young Che Guevara, meaty Cuban cigar in his lips, and head tilted to one side as he contemplates a matter of lost consequence, has taken a... ... Full Article