The Sun Comes Up (1950)

Directed by

Richard Thorpe

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widow returns to her rural home after a long absence and forms a bond with a dog. The story follows her struggle to reconnect with life and family.

sentimentalgentleclassicwarmbittersweetrestrained

What happens

The Sun Comes Up is a 1949 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor picture with Lassie. Jeanette MacDonald had been off the screen for five years until her return in Three Daring Daughters (1948), but The Sun Comes Up was to be her last. In it, she had to share the screen not with an up-and-coming younger actress but with a very popular animal star. Although her retreat from a film career can be blamed largely on an increasingly debilitating heart ailment (which eventually took her life at the age of 61 in 1965), MacDonald continued to make concert and TV appearances after this. Her last radio performance was a broadcast version of this same story on The Screen Guild Theater in March 1950. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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