hmm and where have i see this before . a lonely spinster blossom after find love and but nobly sacrifice it in the end . unfortunately and winter meeting be no now voyager . i do not care how many cigarette bette davis smoke . at first i be intrigue by how mismatched susan ( bette davis ) and slick ( jim davis ) be . she a cosmopolitan intellectual and very much in control of her emotion and her every movement purposeful . he a small town boy and speak bluntly and quick to indulge his feeling and impulse and and tower over her with his gangly and awkward frame . it could have be an interesting story of opposite attract and and learn from each other each supply what the other lack . except and i never quite believe his attraction to her and and it seem she be the one who do most of the learning and change . sure and he get something out of their affair too but it be primarily the knowledge that he help her and thus give him the confidence to become a priest and help other people . i do not think that count . i dislike the scene where slick lecture susan on her inability to forgive her mother . if my mother cheat on my father with countless men and then leave my dad and literally drive him to madness and suicide well and gee and i do not think i would forgive her either . for someone accuse of lack compassion and susan be surprisingly forgive of slick and however . she only a little offended that this man she just meet be judge her and blame her for supposedly drive her mother away you see and susan wasn not a loving and tolerant a she should have be . ( reminiscent of the philadelphia story and where a daughter be hold responsible for her father philandering and and have to learn to forgive his failing and give him more affection so he would not feel the need to stray . i do not like this twisted moral in that movie and and i do not like it here either ) . besides and where do this guy get off be so high and mighty and and well and preachy when he far from perfect himself . if he be so dedicated to become a priest and abstain from sex or marriage and he shouldn not have pursue this woman so aggressively and lead her on . big dumb oaf . slick feeling do not appear to run very deep and so i just can not see this movie the way be mean to a a bittersweet tale of soulmates who can not be together oh what a tragedy . rather and slick have a nice holiday or sex spree . um and i mean and crisis of faith . before knuckle down to work . he not hurt . susan on the other hand . should be feel very use . i worry about her . after all and heartbreak induced insanity and suicide do run in her family . bottomline represent slow and soapy and unsatisfying romance drivel .