Now, Voyager (1942)

Directed by

Irving Rapper

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 233 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A repressed woman breaks free from her controlling mother and finds love and confidence on a cruise. She returns home to face her family and a complicated romance.

romanticmelodramaticemotionalclassicglamorousintrospectiveyearningtransforming

What happens

Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains, and directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty. Prouty borrowed her title from the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want," which reads in its entirety, The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, Now, voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. In 2007, Now, Voyager was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film ranks number 23 on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Passions, a list of the top love stories in American cinema. Film critic Steven Jay Schneider suggests the film continues to be remembered for not only its star power, but also the "emotional crescendos" engendered in the storyline. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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