Tyrone Power is an American nuclear physicist disenchanted with the world he has helped create. He is in London, where he has inherited a house on Berkeley Square, from an ancestor whose portrait, still hung there, looks exactly like him. He has read the man's diary, and developed the fancy that he will go back in time and take that man's place for a while, which is exactly what happens.
This remake of Berkeley Square was shot in England by the reliable Roy Ward Baker, and has a fine British cast. Besides also visiting American co-star Ann Blyth, it boasts appearances by Michael Rennie, Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Kathleen Byron, and Felix Aylmer. Its themes are the intense, unfulfilled romance between Tower and Miss Blyth, and the near-barbaric superstition, society, and conditions of the 18th Century, subjects near and dear to the hearts of post-War Americans, especially those of 20th Century-Fox, which produced several films about this time in Britain to use profits blocked by then-current British regulations. Although the endpieces in modern London are shot in crisp black and white, cinematographer Georges Perinal's brilliant color portratit of 18th-Century London is an especial treat, particularly the street scenes.
This remake of Berkeley Square was shot in England by the reliable Roy Ward Baker, and has a fine British cast. Besides also visiting American co-star Ann Blyth, it boasts appearances by Michael Rennie, Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Kathleen Byron, and Felix Aylmer. Its themes are the intense, unfulfilled romance between Tower and Miss Blyth, and the near-barbaric superstition, society, and conditions of the 18th Century, subjects near and dear to the hearts of post-War Americans, especially those of 20th Century-Fox, which produced several films about this time in Britain to use profits blocked by then-current British regulations. Although the endpieces in modern London are shot in crisp black and white, cinematographer Georges Perinal's brilliant color portratit of 18th-Century London is an especial treat, particularly the street scenes.