Now and Forever

Good film would have been better in colour

This film was a true delight at times and at other times it truly tugs at your heart. It is mostly a Cooper/Lombard film with a very young Shirley Temple who shines.

Gary Cooper plays a con man in this film. Shirley Temple plays his daughter. He scams for a living, trying to put himself in the best possible high life style he can. His daughter, and girlfriend (Carole Lombard) slowly change him into the man he should be!A similar movie would be Tony Curtis' "40 Pounds Of Trouble".

Caught in between Gary Cooper and Carol Lombard we find Shirley Temple. While not the commanding presence that she has in later films, she is apparently being groomed for future roles. The story is interesting and complex enough, though every time I see Gary Cooper in a less demanding role than that of "High Noon," I am a bit disappointed. I give this film 5 stars for its brilliant, vivid colorization. This is the best colorized movie I have yet seen. It truly rivals technicolor in quality. Even if the story isn't quite your cup of tea, I say buy it and enjoy one of the best restoration/supplementation efforts ever.

What a sweet movie! I so enjoy watching stars of yesteryear, especially ones that were really 'stars'. Carol Lombard, long tall Gary Cooper and dimpled cutie Shirley Temple are simply engaging. I had never heard of this picture and it's not included in the Shirley Temple collections that have been released. I came across it by chance - saw the cover photo. I didn't bother to read a synopsis, I didn't care about the plot, I just bought it and I am not disappointed.

This VHS tape is marketed and sold as a Shirley Temple film, when in fact, the movie was made at Paramount prior to Shirley's star days at 20th Century Fox. It really is a Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard film, which is the reason why I bought it. Cooper is young, extremely charming and very handsome. Likewise, Carole Lombard (yet to find the signature persona of her screwball comedy era at this point) is pretty and likable. This was well worth the few dollars I paid for it. I don't know if it is available on DVD at this point but if it is, it wouldn't be part of the Shirley Temple 20th Century Fox box sets. Since it is one of the 700 or so films that Paramount sold to Universal for television distribution many years ago, no doubt that it would be a Universal Home Video release.