Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)

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

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

"Where Do We Go from Here" is a comedy, fantasy and musical that started out with a huge cast – with many small parts, but finished somewhat smaller. One can tell by the missing people from the cast list, and from the choppiness of the screenplay. The plot is OK and allows for Fox to use multiple wardrobes during this film. But there must have been quite a lot cut from the film. Fred MacMurray is Bill Morgan, Joan Leslie is Sally Smith and June Haver is Lucilla Powell. They form the core of the various scenarios this script takes us through. Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics for the songs by Kurt Weill. These are some of the best parts of the film. The performers all are good, and the film has light comedy. The funniest song is "Nina, The Pinta and the Santa Maria." The best lines happen when Bill is transported back to the pilgrim days of America. Bill asks a passer-by the name of the girl in the park, and the gent doesn't understand Bill's 20th century English. So he tries again, "In the park, a girl there is sitting. Her name, me you could tell?" The gent answers with a nod and smile, "Katrina." After resolving a major problem over Manhattan Island (can anyone guess), Bill tells Katrina, "See it now, I can. For me in the whole world, the only girl you are." Katrina, "So glad I am. But, change your mind, what made you?" Actually that sounds like something from the future as well—well, the past future. Doesn't it sound a lot like Yoda in the Star Wars films?This is light entertainment that some will enjoy. Others may be bored or soon lose interest.

I happened to see this movie twice or more and found it well made! WWII had freshly ended and the so-called "Cold War" was about to begin. This movie could, therefore, be defined as one of the best "propaganda", patriotic movies preparing Americans and, secondly, people from the still to be formed "Western NATO block" of countries to face the next coming menace. The movie celebrates the might of the US, through the centuries, while projecting itself onwards to the then present war, which had just ended. Nice and funny is the way of describing the discovering of the American Continent by Columbus and pretty the "espisode" of New Amsterdam and the purchasing of Manhattan from a drunk local Indian .. Must see it (at least once, for curiosity of fashion of propaganda through time)! :)

During a Kurt Weill celebration in Brooklyn, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? was finally unearthed for a screening. It is amazing that a motion picture, from any era, that has Weill-Gershwin collaborations can possibly be missing from the screens. The score stands tall, and a CD of the material, with Gershwin and Weill, only underscores its merits, which are considerable. Yes, the film has its problems, but the score is not one of them. Ratoff is not in his element as the director of this musical fantasy, and Fred MacMurray cannot quite grasp the material. Then, too, the 'modern' segment is weakly written. BUT the fantasy elements carry the film to a high mark, as does the work of the two delightful leading ladies - Joan Leslie and June Haver. Both have the charm that this kind of work desperately needs to work. As a World War II salute to our country's history - albeit in a 'never was' framework, the film has its place in Hollywood musical history and should be available for all to see and to find its considerable merits.

This film is from 1945, in gorgeous (but a little too dark in the night-time scenes) Technicolor, with songs by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin! It's a war-time pageant and everyone wants to get in the army, and a genie appears to help Fred MacMurray do a "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" entry into various times of American history. Anthony Quinn is funny as a street-smart Indian, and I never realized how gorgeous June Haver and Joan Leslie were. So-so songs and a terrible title explain how unknown this goofy film is. Gregory Ratoff was evidentially a better actor (Symphony for Six Million) than a director, but at 77 minutes this film is worth your time, especially if you like musicals. Nice to look at, and the choreography is pretty amusing.