Tyrone Power & Ann Blyth in "I'll Never Forget You" (1951) - feat. Michael Rennie & Dennis Price

In London, American atomic scientist Peter Standish (Tyrone Power) works in a nuclear laboratory. Co-worker Roger Forsyth (Michael Rennie) is worried about Peter's lack of social activities, and takes him to a house in Berkeley Square he inherited. There Peter announces his wishes of living in the 18th century among the high-class family Petitgrew, which has studied. After a strike of lightning, he is brought back to 1784, and thought to be the first Peter Standish, the American cousin of the Pettigrews who, according to history, will soon romance and marry Kate Pettigrew (Beatrice Campbell). Peter falls for Kate, but is interested in her sister Helen (Ann Blyth), of whom he has never found any records. Over the next few days, Peter makes several bad impressions on the family by using modern day language and revealing information he could not have known if he had actually grown up in the 18th century. Helen is the only one not suspicious of Peter's presence and falls in love with him. Peter admits to her that the 18th century is not what he thought it would be. The narrow-minded people, the poverty and the dirt irritate him. He admits that he is from the future, and shows Helen his hidden laboratory in the basement with modern inventions. Rather than being afraid, Helen becomes more interested in Peter. They fall in love, despite Peter's awareness that he has to marry Kate in order to not change history. Helen begs him not to say things which make him look odd, and that night, at a formal party, Peter tries to impress the famous Duchess of Devonshirem (Kathleen Byron), but accidentally talks about her as if talking about her legacy, which makes her uneasy. Kate is fed up with Peter and announces that she will not marry him. Rather than trying to court her somehow, Peter is drawn to Helen, who is interested in finding out more about the future. Peter's laboratory is uncovered. He is committed to the Bethlem Royal Hospital. Before being taken away, he rushes to Helen's room, where she places a crux ansata to remind him of her love for him. While being taken away, lightning strikes again and Peter returns to the present. There, Forsyth tells him he has been acting like a madman for the past seven weeks. Peter is shocked when he meets Forsyth's sister Martha (Ann Blyth), who resembles Helen. He rushes out to the graveyard in front of his house, and not only discovers Helen's grave, but that she died of grief shortly after he was taken away to the asylum. A 1951 British science fiction fantasy film (aka "The House in the Square" and "Man of Two Worlds") directed by Roy Ward Baker, produced by Sol C. Siegel, screenplay by Ranald MacDougall, based on a play by John L. Balderston, cinematography by Georges Périnal, starring Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Kathleen Byron, Raymond Huntley, and Irene Browne. Released by Twentieth Century Fox. Irene Browne and Beatrice Campbell had previously both appeared in "Meet Me at Dawn" (1947). The reality of the opening and closing sequences in are presented in Black & White, and the fantasy sequence is in Technicolor. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck admitted that he borrowed this idea from "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). The film takes place on April 23, 1951, from April 23 to June 12, 1784 and on June 12, 1951. Helen Pettigrew was born in 1762 and died on September 17, 1784 at the age of 22. The film went into production in January 1945, with Gregory Peck and Maureen O'Hara in the lead roles. The project, however, was shelved and eventually abandoned, before it was taken up in 1950. Adapted from the 1926 play Berkeley Square by John L. Balderston. The original Broadway production opened at the Lyceum Theater on November 4, 1929, and ran for 229 performances. It was also the basis of the film "Berkeley Square" (1933). Irene Browne reprised her role as Lady Anne Pettigrew from the 1933 version. She is the only actor to appear in both films. "Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 22, 1952 with Tyrone Power reprising his film role. Roy Ward Baker (196-2010), born Roy Horace Baker in Hornsey, London, served in the Army Kinematograph Service during the Second World War, as a production manager and director of documentaries. His superior, novelist Eric Ambler, gave Baker his first big break directing "The October Man" (1947), from an Ambler screenplay. This story line was the loose inspiration for Jeannot Szwarc's "Somewhere in Time" (1980), starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer. Tyrone Power is showcased in one of his finest, most undervalued performances in this beautiful, emotionally powerful love story with a science fiction twist. The distinctive cinematography, combined with extraordinary production design and sumptuous period detail of this of photographed stage play, creates a visually stunning experience. If you let it, the film has a charm all its own.