ALWAYS GOODBYE (1938) - ♦♦♦

Directed by - Sidney Lanfield

Written by - Douglas Z. Doty, Gilbert Emery, Kathryn Scola, Edith Scouras

Starring - Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall

"A pregnant woman whose husband-to-be dies on the day of their marriage, is helped through her pregnancy and her decision to give her child up for adoption by a good natured man. Years later, as the time seems right for a romance to finally spark up between them, she fortuitously meets her child and casually begins to enter his life, placing her at a life crossroads as she must choose whether she wants to be the mother to her son or the wife of her one true love. 

An unusual melodrama, with a pacing so fast that it seems to rush through the many plot developments of the story without allowing the viewer a natural reaction or even fully connect with the emotional side of the story – which in itself is spins out of a pretty clever concept. 

Always Goodbye has its redeeming factors, notably showed by the performances by the cast, but there is no doubt about the pacing letting it down and preventing it from being half the film it possibly couldhave been."

Drama, USA