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Staring: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters, Henry Travers
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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Product Details
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
EAN: 9780790747774
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed
ISBN: 0790747774
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-01-11
Running Time: 126
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1942-02-28

Product Features
Paula Smith (Greer Garson) is the secretary of industrialist Charles Rainier (Ronald Colman). She's also his wife, which Charles does not know. Shell-shocked during World War I, he doesn't recall his days as her husband, John Smith. Advised not to endanger Charles' fragile mental state, Paula cannot openly reveal her identity. She must find other ways to help him remember their life together.From

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An amnesiac World War I British veteran marries a showgirl, then forgets her.

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The ultimate tearjerker, this 1942 romance classic directed by Mervyn LeRoy (based on a novel by James Hilton) stars Ronald Colman as a British army officer suffering from amnesia after World War I. After falling in love with and marrying a dance-hall singer (Greer Garson), Colman's happy character begins a career as a writer and doesn't seem to mind that he doesn't remember who he is. A car accident changes all that, however, causing the hero's memory to return and making him forget all about his lovely cottage and bride. LeRoy modulates the obvious suspense element in the story (for example, is Colman going to remember Greer or not?) extremely well, building ever-so-deliciously slowly toward a huge payoff. This is one of the great date movies of all time. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

DVD.....Random Harvest, 2009-12-01
This movie has always been a favorite. Read the book first and Greer Garson, as always, was perfect in her role. Saw movie when it first came out, in the 40's, watched in on television in the 70's with one of my daughters, and again in the 90's with another daughter on video. Just received a DVD from Amazon.....perfect condition, and will be watching it again with yet another daughter and granddaughter. Won't do that with present day movies with their "R" ratings.

One of the Greatest Classic Black & White Movies, 2010-02-09
This is the type of feel good movie that makes you want to watch it again and again. James Hilton writes an intriguing and gutsy story that captures you immediately and takes you through some intensely felt emotional roller coaster rides that finally comes to a stop where everything becomes happily ever after. This love story takes place in various parts of England after the war to end all wars. There are so many times when you feel that the fate of this couple is hopeless and yet the coincidences are so many that you can't help but think that the guardian angels are doing all they can to bring these lovers back together again. I can't recommend this movie (story) enough because if you are sitting alone bored on a rainy and cold day or evening, you couldn't have chosen a better pick me up than "Random Harvest" . . . by the way, Greer Garson is so incredibly beautiful and sweet that she'll simply steal your heart and take your breath away at the same time!

Vintage films, 2010-02-10
The nearest film to this is " Closing the Ring". The stars are why we visited the cinema and Greer Garson- she was perfection- asmile that lit up the screne and the story line holds you on the edge of your seat. The Mist billowing across the sytreets- a man - a shell shock victim of the first world war- finds love but has lost memory of the past- then an accident and he remembers the present but cannot recall the past- will it all end well and true love triumph- I did hope so for there was Greer Garson waiting for her man to " find her" but surely he already has found her- or has he? What a story line.

Based on a novel by James Hilton, 2009-11-24
I am being simple in my description but it is the action and interaction of the character that make the movie, not really the story line.

John 'Smithy' Smith (Ronald Colman) not his real name wakes up in an asylum with no memory of who is. One day the door is left open and he wonders out or escapes. A dancer Paula Ridgeway (Greer Garson) spots him and eventually takes him in like a lost puppy. They eventually set-up house in a cottage in the country and have a son. He goes to a new job in Liverpool. Then it happens; he is hit by a truck and now has no memory of the three lost years as the happy and caring Smithy. He realizes he is Charles Rainier the heir of an industry and a good size house. He also has a niece Kitty Chilcet (Susan Peters) that really is not related, who is growing up fast with matrimony on her mind.

Will he marry Kitty?
Will he (or we) ever see Paula again?
Is Smithy dead?

The same actors are found in other Hilton stories; such as Ronald Colman in "Lost Horizon" (1937), and Greer Garson in "Mrs. Miniver" (1942). Greer was up for the Best Actress Oscar for this movie. However she got it for "Mrs. Miniver" and the rules say that you can only have one award per year.

Susan Peters was on the way up in the movies when she had an accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down. She died 10 years later at the age of 31.

A Romance for All Time, 2010-01-17
Greer Garson and Ronald Colman! A combination destined to evoke every sympathy, every understanding, every tear, and every cheer! Random Harvest is a genuine pleasure to watch, and Greer Garson and Ronald Colman are as easy on the ear as a gently flowing brooke on a summer's day. Five Stars!

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