A Guy Named Joe (1943)

A GUY NAMED JOE  (1943)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Victor Fleming
    Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson,
    Ward Bond, Lionel Barrymore, James Gleason,
    Barry Nelson, Esther Williams, Don DeFore
The wartime classic from MGM, starring Spencer Tracy as a hotshot Air Force pilot who comes back as the guardian angel to another hotshot pilot played by Van Johnson. Irene Dunne plays the girl who loves both of them, and a flyer herself. Toward the end, Dunne's character does something that pretty much defies belief, but in a story where departed aviators end up in heaven getting their marching orders from Lionel Barrymore, the movie's in fantasyland, anyway. Better just go with it, I'd say. It's more fun that way. Steven Spielberg's remake, "Always", came out in 1989.