Review of The Man from Yesterday

This film almost wilfully makes a meal of a melodramatic but not terribly original storyline and takes it at a snail's space. The lovers played by Claudette Colbert and Clive Brook both live in considerable style, and the whole thing has lavish production values and as photographed by Karl Struss looks good; especially top-billed Claudette, although she gets no chance to display the knowing good humour we're accustomed to from her later roles. Brook and Charles Boyer both acquit themselves well, but the film takes far too long to tell such a simple story.