Never Let Me Go (film)

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This article is about the 1953 film. For the 2005 novel, see Never Let Me Go.

Original movie poster for Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go is a 1953 MGM romantic adventure film directed by Delmer Daves, produced by Clarence Brown, from a screenplay by George Froeschel and Ronald Millar, based on the novel Come the Dawn by Roger Bax.

The film stars Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn, Belita, Kenneth More and Theodore Bikel. It was shot at MGM's British studios and on location in Cornwall.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Philip Sutherland (Gable) is a newsman in Moscow at the end of the war when he meets and marries Russian ballerina Marya Lamarkina (Tierney). They are united by the US ambassador (Robert Henderson) and go off on their honeymoon, where they meet Christopher Wellington St. John Denny (Haydn), an Englishman, and his new Russian wife, Valentina Alexandrovna (Belita). Haydn is asked to leave Russia by the authorities, but they won't let his wife go with him. Soon, Sutherland is suffering the same fate. The two men unite and attempt to smuggle their wives out of Russia through the usual means, but they are tied up tightly by red tape. They eventually pool their resources to buy a boat, and, with the help of a British sailor (Miles), make plans to pick their wives up in the Baltic. With further aid from Steve Quillan (More), a radio broadcaster stationed in Moscow, the wives find out where to be, but only Valentina turns up. Marya has been kept back to do a ballet in front of an important Soviet army man. Gable comes ashore, robs a Russian of his uniform, gets to the theatre, steals his bride away in a feat of bravery, and, after a chase, manages to get her to the ship and freedom.