Alex da Silva Escaped murderer George Brent (Dan) is caught in Hong Kong by detective Pat O'Brien (Steve) who has been tracking him. Together, they board a cruise ship that will take Brent back to San Francisco where he is due to hang. Meanwhile, Merle Oberon (Joan) is dying from a heart disease and is spending her final days as a free spirit travelling the world. She is on the same cruise ship, and after a previous chance encounter in Hong Kong, Brent and Oberon re-acquaint themselves on the ship. Brent hides his true identity and Oberon keeps her secret to herself. Can they find happiness together? Well, the film is okay. I found Merle Oberon's character pretty annoying and I wish the story had focused more on the George Brent escape story. The film needed more to it. Every time you think the film is going somewhere, Oberon appears and takes things back to planet soppy and bland. The cast did fine with a couple of exceptions – petty crook Frank McHugh (Rockingham T Rockingham) is annoying as a drunk but good when he plays it straight whilst comedy character wealthy Eric Blore (Harold) is never funny in this outing. The ending is romantic and the film is basically a soppy romance. I was a bit disappointed.One thing that did make me chuckle – at the beginning of the film, we are told that Merle is taking Amyl Nitrate as a cure for her heart problem! No wonder her chances of making it aren't very good. She must have had a lunatic as a doctor. My experience of the drug is of getting a rush of blood to the head to the point where your face goes red, your heart beat speeds up rapidly and you fall about in uncontrollable hysterics. It was great fun, just a shame that it's really BAD for you. It explodes your brain cells, gives you headaches and sends your heartbeat racing. It also relaxes your anal muscles which is why it was a popular drug with the gay community – probably still is. So, maybe Merle was taking it so she could enjoy loads of anal sex whilst cranking up her heart rate so that she dies! Is Oberon walking funny by the end of the film - watch and find out.

bkoganbing 'Til We Meet Again is a remake of Warner Brothers earlier film, One Way Passage, a story of doomed romance that starred William Powell and Kay Francis. This film and the previous one concerns the shipboard romance of a man being brought back to the United States in custody to face the gas chamber in San Quentin and a terminally ill woman on a cruise for one last fling at life. Taking the parts of Powell and Francis are George Brent and Merle Oberon.I can see Jack Warner's mind at work on this one. The year before George Brent had romanced and treated the terminally ill Bette Davis in Dark Victory. Why not get Brent into a remake of this other film about a dying woman and her last romance? We even get Geraldine Fitzgerald in this one in the same part, best friend to the terminally ill woman.The part of the police lieutenant escorting Brent is built up considerably from One Way Passage where the role was played by Warren Hymer. Here Pat O'Brien is the cop and he's nobody's fool. Still Brent has friends on board, Frank McHugh who's a con man with a nice drunk act and Binnie Barnes who's a con woman with a phony French accent. She goes after O'Brien and not totally in the line of duty. She's also my favorite in this film.Oberon and Brent make a beautiful pair of lovers and one had better have as big a supply of handkerchiefs as one did in watching One Way Passage.

Michael Curran This classic black and white film is among the most outstanding in film history. The use of shadows and light throughout the filming accentuates the story line. The story line is bolstered by the strong characters played by prominent actorsMerle Oberon and company play credible roles in a plot designed to capture the emotions and sentiment of the viewer. The push and pull of the emotions keep building the level of the viewers participation in the film. The acting and directing cause the viewer to live within the film.Although it is a remake of a movie not as good as this one, and others have used similar story lines and twists since this one, it is the classic story following through on a promise.

wolffirefox I saw this movie only once more than 30 years ago, when I was very young-about 16 or so in NY. I have never forgotten the plot, and whenever I would ask someone about it, no one was able to tell me about it until today. The impact this move made on me was lasting.I loved the characters and always felt that it was one of the most under-rated love stories ever written. It's a great movie for watching on a cold winter night with your loved one by your side.