The Man From Yesterday (1932)
Director:
Berthold ViertelWriters:
Nell Blackwell (play), Rowland G. Edwards (play)Stars:
Claudette Colbert, Clive Brook, Charles Boyer
The "Enoch Arden" theme is trotted out and slicked up for The Man from Yesterday. Nurse Claudette Colbert marries army doctor Charles Boyer, believing that her first husband, Clive Brook, has been killed in World War One. Not quite; Brook has survived (though not by much), ending up in the same hospital with Dr. Boyer and nurse Colbert. She is willing to honor her first marriage, but Brook, aware that he is dying from the aftereffects of poison gas, nobly sends her away. The Man from Yesterday is ideal fare for stiff-upper-lipped Clive Brook, but not all that suitable to the ebullient Claudette Colbert; still, she is excellent, as is the rest of the cast.
