Parker as Ann Bergner Edmund Gwenn as Scrubby George Tobias as Pete Musick George Coulouris as Mr. Lingley Faye Emerson as Miss Maxine Russell Sara Allgood as Mrs. Midget Dennis King as Reverend William Duke Isobel Elsom as Genevieve Cliveden-Banks Gilbert Emery as Benjamin Cliveden-Banks Differences between versions Neither the original play, Outward Bound, nor its 1930 film version have a war setting. There are fewer characters in the play and the earlier film, and no one is killed by a bomb, but the plot is essentially the same, as is much of the dialogue. However, because there is no bomb explosion, neither the audience nor the ship passengers are aware that the passengers are dead until well into the play, not even Henry and Ann. The play and earlier film also share a number of other differences from Between Two Worlds, one of them being that Henry and Ann are lovers and Ann cannot obtain a divorce from her husband. When they board the ship, the audience is led to believe that they are running away to be together, and it is not until the end that it is revealed that they tried to commit suicide. The Hays Code, which was not in effect in 1930, when Outward Bound was filmed, prevented Ann and Henry from being depicted as illicit lovers, and instead demanded that they be turned into husband and wife. However, the suicide aspect of the story went unchanged from the original. Paul Henreid wrote in his memoirs that he felt the film was hurt by revealing the characters were dead at the beginning, which "took away from the eerie quality of the play." He says director Blatt was "a pleasant fellow but inexperienced." Media releases Never available on VHS, Between Two Worlds was released by Warner Archive on DVD. See also List of American films of 1944 See films with similar subjects A Guy Named Joe A Matter of Life and Death Here Comes Mr. Jordan References External links Between Two Worlds at the Movie Review Query Engine 1944 films 1940s fantasy drama films American black-and-white films American fantasy drama films Remakes of American films Films scored by Erich Wolfgang Korngold American films based on plays Films about the afterlife Films set on ships Warner Bros. films American World War II films 1944 drama films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films