Bette Davis

Paul Henreid

Claude Rains

Gladys Cooper

Bonita Granville

John Loder

Ilka Chase

Lee Patrick

Franklin Pangborn

Katharine Alexander

James Rennie

Mary Wickes

Tod Andrews

Brooks Benedict

Yola d'Avril

Charles Drake

Claire Du Brey

Elspeth Dudgeon

Bill Edwards

Mary Field

Bess Flowers

George Lessey

Tempe Pigott

Frank Puglia

Constance Purdy

Janis Wilson

Ian Wolfe

Irving Rapper

Casey Robinson

Olive Higgins Prouty

Edward A. Blatt

Leo F. Forbstein

Hugo Friedhofer

Don Siegel

Robert B. Lee

Robert M. Haas

Orry-Kelly

Sol Polito

Fred M. MacLean

Hal B. Wallis

Max Steiner

Warren Low

Willard Van Enger

Perc Westmore

Rydo Loshak

Romance

Drama

Now, Voyager

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Bette Davis at her best took some beating, and here is one such an example. Together with expertly delivered performances from Claude Rains and Gladys Cooper we are presented with an emotional roller-coaster of a film. Davis starts as the hen-pecked daughter of Cooper, until she encounters Rains' "Dr. Jaquith" who decides that he may be able to help this erstwhile shy spinster find herself a little purpose in life. She is despatched on a cruise liner where she meets the married "Jerry" (Paul Henried) and though there is a semblance of a romance, it can come to nothing and it is only after a long, occasionally torrid but always riveting series of scenarios, that we begin to arrive at anything that might resemble a conclusion. Irving Rapper does really well to allow Max Steiner's score and an excellent Casey Robinson screenplay to empower his stars to create and develop characters in whom - especially Davis - we can readily invest. I have never been Henreid's biggest fan, I always found him just a little bit insipid, but he works well here as does a really on form Cooper in the role of her mother. Seen very recently on a big screen again after almost 80 years, and it has lost none of it's style, panache and wonderfully paced sense of the dramatic. Great stuff!

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