Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

zellyblue Yuck. Meandering and pointless execrable exercise in bad Hollywood film making. Wonderful Ingrid Bergman wasted and Flora Robson in black face. Nuff said. Wonderful supporting cast has nothing to support.

gkeith_1 Clio was right. Cleent was "beautiful". Mrs. Bellop was right. With Coop's big shoulders and narrow hips, Clio would have been stupid to give that up in place of that milksop rich guy, Bartholomew Van Steed. I guess Mrs. Sophie Bellop didn't get her money, but ah well. Clio ended up with Cleent, and I'm sure the children turned out to be handsome, tall boys and beautiful, charming and coquettish girls. Turns out Clint ended up wealthy, so Clio got the handsome guy and the money, too, $$$$. Gary Cooper was one tall, cool and handsome drink of water.When Mrs. Bellop gave Mrs. Van Steed her comeuppance, I laughed out loud. Showing up Mrs. Van S. was indeed a stroke of genius. I always enjoy seeing Florence Bates, especially in "On The Town".Ingrid Bergman was awesome. She was very beautiful, and I enjoyed hearing her mixture of French and English. She looked very wonderful in the costuming.Jerry Austin (Cupidon) stole the show, in my book. When he told Clint, "I am a man!!," it was a heartwarming moment for me. Small actors and characters are tired of being treated as goofy marionettes.Love New Orleans French Quarter, and loved seeing the neighborhoods in this movie. Jambalaya a good memory. These streets and foods still exist.Loved seeing Flora Robson, an English actress, in her role as Angelique. She had the American accent down well, plus the New Orleans patois. Her raised eyebrows could sink ships. I thought that her makeup and costuming were perfect for the role. Also, she actually loved Clio, as well as Cupidon and even Clint.12/10

bkoganbing Saratoga Trunk was one of a handful of films done during the World War II years and not released to the general public until the war ended. Warner Brothers was especially big on that, another example would be the Humphrey Bogart/Barbara Stanwyck film The Two Mrs. Carrolls. In the case of Saratoga Trunk though, it had a built in audience guaranteed because of the tremendous hit that director Sam Wood had already done at Paramount with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, For Whom The Bell Tolls. They were such a smash box office hit with the public as a romantic duo that I guess Jack Warner craved a little of what Adolph Zukor was raking in at Paramount.The vehicle for Wood/Cooper/Bergman is the Edna Ferber novel, Saratoga Trunk and I think it proved a bit too long for the screen. If it were done today it would have been a mini-series. In fact the film should have been done as a two parter because it's really two different stories with only the most fragile connection.The first part is Ingrid Bergman and her posse, Flora Robson and Jerry Austin arrive in New Orleans where she is laying claim to the estate of her late father. Mom was a woman of easy virtue and Dad was old New Orleans creole society. She accidentally killed him back in the day. The scandal caused dad's family to see that society shunned her even after her term in prison.Ingrid sets out to make the family pay and they do in many ways. She also meets Texan Gary Cooper while in the Big Easy. He's also out for some payback involving some railroad barons.Both of them make their separate ways to Saratoga, during the 1890s the playground of the rich and famous. Cooper still has his score to settle and Bergman wants to snag a wealthy husband.It might have been far better to treat the New Orleans and the Saratoga incidents as two separate films. Instead Warner Brothers and Sam Wood tried to pack it all in one film and it's over long.Cooper and Bergman still retain the romantic appeal from For Whom The Bells Toll. They got some real good support from dwarf actor Jerry Austin as her faithful Cupidon and Flora Robson made up as a mixed racial Haitian servant. It's blackface yes, but Robson does not play it servile, not by any means.Other good roles here are Florence Bates as the wise society dowager in Saratoga, Curt Bois as the family lawyer for Bergman's Dad's family who she negotiates with for a payoff, John Warburton as the object of her matrimony in Saratoga and Ethel Griffies as his mother. Warburton proves to be something of an unpleasant surprise for Bergman.Bergman has the far showier role as Cleo Dulaine, but Cooper does have his moments. There is a climatic brawl that he's involved in with two factions trying to control a railway trunkline in Saratoga.Well that's where the title comes from. What, did you think it was Ingrid Bergman's baggage?

Marinelli I would rate this film high on my list of Ingrid Bergman films. Ingrid's beauty aside, her talent is evident in scene after scene. She was sad, mean, witty,snobbish, flirtatious, delightfully funny, loving, tender, sorrowful, distressed, happy, etc. You name it, she was all those things and more. -And soconvincing. Ingrid plays a notorious woman (Clio) who comes back to NewOrleans and falls for a Texas gambler, Gary Cooper (Clint). I especially loved the scene where they are sitting at the dining table saying nothing, just staring at each other. She, in an elegant white gown and he in a handsome white cowboyoutfit, sitting there looking at her adoringly. What chemistry! What love!