Unknown film

[Derek Lowe]

Years ago I remember seeing a film where a woman is ill and her death grows closer each time a flower outside her window dies.A man who is in love with her paints a flower on the wall on her house as the last flower is left unfortunately when he does this it's snowing and he dies but prolongs her life.I know it's an unlikely plot but believe me it does exist-anyone who answers this has my utmost respect and gratitude.

[cobweb]

I too remember a film along the same lines except the one i know was a collection of short stories about people sharing a lodging house. The one i saw was that the woman looks at the tree outside her window and believes that when all the leaves have fallen from its branches she will die...so during the night the artist downstairs paints a leaf on the wall to prolong her hope/life. He catches cold and dies. Another story featured a newly married couple who are very poor but want to give each other wonderful gifts....so he sells his pocket watch to buy her a comb for her beautiful hair, which she sells to buy him a chain for his watch. The point of the film being that love/thinking of others is the most important thing. Sorry i cannot remember any of the actors or even a title, but it was a beautiful film. Good luck i hope you manage to track it down.

[bluedolphin]

Cobweb...the story u mention is an O'Henry story so perhaps the movie was a collection of story by O'Henry....i have read the one u describe about the newlymarrieds.....

[bluedolphin]

ok so I googled and came up with 1952movie titled O'Henryy's Full House...the story about the newly weds is The Gift of Magi...and here is a brief overview.... This quintet of classic O. Henry short stories is well cast and lavishly produced by some of the period's best directors. One piece follows a vagrant's (Laughton) unsuccessful attempts (including harassing Monroe) to get arrested and spend the cold winter months in a warm jail cell. Adaptations of "The Ransom of Red Chief," in which kidnappers Allen and Levant have their hands full with a bratty captive, and "The Gift of the Magi," with poor newlyweds Granger and Crain offering sacrificial gifts, are also standouts. (narrator). I wonder if its still around...Reminds me of a movie of a couple of Sommerset Maughams stories I saw when I was about 7years old at xmas...probably in the same format.

[LeMarchand]

I was hoping that someone would find the title, as the movie sounds intriguing. Now it's just waiting for it to turn up on TV (I don't think a DVD release is likely).