Expert: Mel - 5/14/2009

Question
I was up late on night and watching a black & white movie from TMC.

It was about a group of people and just appeared on an abandoned cruise ship on the ocean.  A older guy gets on and tells them that he is an angel and that he is there to show them to the next phase of their journey.

One guy was a murderer and an old woman that was a housekeeper who turned out to be his mother.

Two couples, one younger that committed suicide together and an older couple with the wife being a materialistic socialite and her husband, madley in love with her.

It was a wonderful and moving movie that I would love to find out the name of so that I can watch it again.

Thank you for all your help.

Donald

Answer
Hello Donald,

This sounds like the 1944 film "Between Two Worlds", which starred John Garfield, with Paul Henreid and Eleanor Parker as a married couple who attempt suicide and then find themselves on a ship with a group of assorted people, bound for no conceivable destination. Little do they realise, that they are all in a kind of limbo, sailing towards judgment and their eventual destination of either Heaven or Hell.

The story, originally a 1924 stage play written by Sutton Vane, was filmed first in 1930, under the play's original title, "Outward Bound". It starred Leslie Howard, with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Helen Chandler playing the young couple who attempt suicide.

Here are a couple of links.........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outward_Bound_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Two_Worlds


Glad to be of help. Cheers.........Mel.