NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

fnjones Jane Wyatt's portrayal of Addie Hunter, as the tolerant yet, adoring neighbor and admirer of protagonist Ernie Mott; played by Cary Grant in 'None but the lonely Heart. Is, in my opinion, one of the best early on screen examples of why she is so endearingly remembered as the wife of Jim Anderson played by Robert Young, Mrs. Margaret Anderson, in the 1960's T.V sitcom, 'Father Knows Best'.Addie Hunter was an idiosyncratic, enigmatic personality. She was a woman who may appeared seem to most, a hopeless romantic 'stuck' on the likes of a cad like Ernie Mott. But, in the reality of the part played, she's a very emotionally mature and intelligent independent minded woman. One that understood exactly who she was and what she wanted.Addie was not a fool, she clearly understood Mott was an inaccessible cad, and no account who obviously, was obliviously unaware of what he wanted and also, intimidated by Addie's ability to unabashedly know, what she did, and unafraid to acknowledge it. I could not help but admire her insightful sense of self-understanding not only of herself, yet Grant's superb portrayal of Mott's personal short comings. Because, in doing so she too, Addie, was just as inaccessible to Mott, and the perfect foil in contrast to Grant's character.In all of their scenes together, it is Addie who is in charge, even if or when Grant character Mott, tried to make her feel she was not. Whether it was when they both walked as far as the fish and chips shop together and he's stuck by her understanding of him as a man, tells him she knew perfectly well, how to handle him, not at all. The scene in the hallway of her flat, where he's talking about Ma Mott's illness and Addie senses he feels a need to come clean, and let her down easy; even though she knows full well already he's been seeing another woman; or, the one where he plays the piano in her flat and calls her a fool.In each, he always left dumb struck by her nuanced admiration of him and controlled emotional and intelligent behavior. Check it out and see for yourself. Jane Wyatt, was meant to eventually to be the perfect match for Robert Young as Mrs. Margaret Anderson , in the T.V sitcom 'Father Knows Best'.

DKosty123 The story behind this one when it was made was the return of Ethel Barrymore to the movie screen after a long time doing live stage productions. Interesting in that she is one of the few in this with very little British accent, yet because of her acting skills and return nobody cared. In fact RKO was already on major cramped budgets when this film was made. Like Barrymore, it had been a long time since King Kong and Gunga Din.Neither story made out too well, as this one did little business in the theaters. It seems in 1944, with the war raging in both oceans, this one just was not really in demand. The story is okay though a serious Cary Grant did not seem to be ready for prime time. Grant tries to carry part of the film, and Barrymore as his mother tries to carry the other. The cockney accent of the support cast is difficult to understand which made the film less audience friendly. Some of the writing on this is from the same writers that worked on How Green Was My Valley but this one is not even a shadow of that one, though the accents in that movie are thick too. Guess that proves that sometimes a weakness in one movie is not the same thing in another one.Grant is the careless son who mom is trying to make responsible this entire movie. He has many girl friends trying to move him in the same direction. It is only his mom who has any success though.

iamyuno2 What a shock, this film! It is not your typical Cary Grant film to say the least! Grant's role would have been better suited to a lesser actor, a character actor perhaps more associated with horror films than mainstream films.Was this Cary's experimental film? Did he feel the need to play a really despicable man?Here you'll find characters of a kind you come to hate, and a dark story of a kind that disturbs you - and it's one without redemption. Even the great Ethel Barrymore comes across as someone you'd want nothing to do with. Grant - as always - is convincing as the horrible character he is portraying. Don't get me wrong. But why he would want to take on this role is questionable. I don't know about you, but if I don't care about the characters in a movie - or I thoroughly dislike them - I don't care about the movie and I don't care to see the movie. That's the case in None But The Lonely Heart. Yet - unlike other bad films I've seen - I'm not arguing this is a bad film because of poor acting or writing or direction or cinematography (which is far darker than even the darkest film noir). It's not a great film, but it's not amateurish either.For its genre - a B-type film that's almost a horror story - it's a well-done film. It's just a story line I don't ever want to see nor would I expect to see Cary Grant in it.I can't relate to or root for a bad guy. I don't want to be dragged down in the dirt with one. This movie suffers from choosing a poor subject and story - a really nasty story.And here, you see one of your favorite actors of all time, Cary Grant, in an ugly light that is almost scary. He's almost TOO convincing as a mad man - a role I can't recall him ever playing before, in all its darkness here. It only makes the movie more upsetting and unsatisfying. All the while you're wondering, "Why did you want to portray such a horrible man, Cary?" I don't want to see a character such as the one Cary played here any more than I'd want to see a biopic on the Sandy Hook shooter. Sorry. Just don't want to get into their minds or lives. I don't want to know anything about them. This movie forces you to get familiar with someone you don't want to get to know.Furthermore, I regret ever having seen this film because I don't feel it fits in with the wealth of great roles Cary Grant played. Plus, it adds, for me, a disturbing note to his career. And it's perhaps the only Cary Grant film I could ever imagine giving a 5-star review to.

edwagreen Am one of the very few who found this to be a dull, moody piece. The somber tone reflected here is just overbearing.Ethel Barrymore gave finer performances than this Oscar-winning performance. How did a woman dying of cancer get involved with pick-pockets to begin with? Is it because of Mrs. Mott's illness that son, Ernie, played by Cary Grant, is forced to stay home and resort to crime?Grant's acting is good here. There is no question about that. He could never have won the Oscar with Alexander Knox in the same category in "Wilson." Knox's loss to Bing Crosby in the best actor category was a disgrace of monumental proportions.What exactly is Clifford Odets trying to show here? The downtrodden. Perhaps, if Ernie Mott had broken into a song, we would have had a better film. The dark dreary scenes were often very difficult to view.What was the purpose of Jane Wyatt's appearance in the film? She loved Ernie deeply but it appeared that she could never capture his heart. Barrymore enters the film in a brutish way. She slaps her son's (Ernie's) face and claimed she was too busy to love his father. What a ludicrous line that was.As far as this film being one of Communist propaganda, what a joke that is. Even the Communists would be thoroughly bored and annoyed with this. They would view the Mott's as extreme capitalists and the jail-hospital, where Mrs. Mott resided, as a bourgeois place by comparison.