None but the Lonely Heart (DVD)

Down-and-out Londoner Ernie Mott makes the best of things ' finding love here, dabbling in crime there. Still, there's a core of decency in Ernie. But a world of poverty and despair has little use for decency. Cary Grant plays Ernie in a milestone work set just before World War II. Gone is the usual Grant elegance. Instead, wistful Cockney Ernie is closer to the star's 'umble roots and Grant took great pride in his performance, which earned him an Academy Award? nomination as Best Actor. He also helped lure Ethel Barrymore back to Hollywood, and she responded vibrantly with 1944's Oscar?-winning Best Supporting Actress portrayal of Ernie's dying mother. Let the moods of this masterwork wash over you. In it's ebb and flow you'll find a moving eloquence close to the heart of the film's leading man.

Starring: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Miss Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt, George Coulouris, Roman Bohnen, Konstantin Shayne, Joseph Vitale, Morton Lowry, William Challee, Katherine Allen, Dan Duryea, Renie Riano, David Clyde, Roy Thomas, Amelia Romano, Rosalind Ivan, Art Smith, Clare Verdera, Charles Thompson, Herbert Heywood, Virginia Farmer, Walter Soderling, Polly Bailey, Bill Wolfe, George Atkinson, Milton Wallace, Ted Billings, Barry Regan, Jack Jackson, Rosemary La Planche, Eric Wilton, David Thursby, Sammy Blum, Alec Harford, Skelton Knaggs, Forrester Harvey, Al Rhein, Al Murphy, Yorke Sherwood, Matthew Boulton, Herbert Evans, Joe North, Elsie Prescott, Chef Milani, Keith Hitchcock, Marie de Becker, Bill O'Leary, John Meredith, Leyland Hodgson, Diane Dyer, Charles Irwin, Colin Kenny, Tiny Jones, Sayre Dearing

Director: David Hempstead

Rating: NR