This is one of the must see films in my 1001 movies to see before you die book and so I was saving it up for a time when I would be totally bowled over. And I was. Olivia De Havilland plays the lead character, a rather plain and uninteresting woman who is set to inherit all her father's money when he dies. Despite her father's cold and unfatherly misdemeanor towards her, she is delighted when she meets a seemingly genuine suitor ( in the form of lovely Monty Clift) who seems to have fallen head over heels in love with her. Her father, however is not convinced, believing him to be after her rather large fortune and will not give his blessing to them getting married causing heartache all round.
A superb film, one that had be on the edge of my seat as Miss De Havilland acted her socks off, and one that I was thinking about for ages afterwards because of the motto of the movie. Added to which, the movie is based on a true event that happened to a friend of Henry James's and so he felt compelled to write a novel about it (Washington Square) which gives it much more of an edge and a peep into how people really think about each other when it comes to money.
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