I'll cut right to the chase..."Adam and Evalyn" is a rather creepy film. Perhaps you won't see it that way, but the relationship between the two main characters just seemed bizarre and a bit wrong.When the film begins, Evalyn (Jean Simmons) is a young lady who grew up in an orphanage and now is one of the teachers. She is, however, very immature--and she lives in a dreamworld where her loving father FINALLY comes to rescue her from this place. But she hasn't seen him in so long she doesn't even know who he is or what he looks like. Yet, she keeps telling everyone that her father is soon coming for her. Sad, actually. Her father is actually a ne'er-do- well jockey and although he plans on getting the daughter, it never seems to happen. When the father is killed, as he's dying he gets his friend, Adam (Stewart Granger) to promise to get the daughter.Now here is a HUGE problem with the story. You'd think any semi- sane man would go to the daughter and say "Your father has died. I am your godfather and am going to have you come live with me". Well, instead, he cannot bring himself to tell her the truth(???) and she thinks he's her father. Huh? EVENTUALLY, someone else goes to Evalyn and tells her the truth. Soon after, Evalyn is sent off to a finishing school in Switzerland or Boise or somewhere. When she arrives back to Adam's home, she is now full of grace, poise and looks like a woman. Now, Adam finds himself attracted to her. Now considering the age difference, his relationship with her and that she once thought he was her dad, doesn't this all seem super-creepy?!The bottom line is that with a small re-write this film could have been a nice romance. The age difference alone wasn't a problem (after all, the actors were married in real life and were well over a decade different age-wise)--the relationship and writing were the problem. Easy to skip.

Adam And Evelyn is a strange, but charming film about a man who put his daughter in an orphanage and went off to war. Never having seen his daughter for reasons the script does not make clear, he impersonates a good friend from the army, a gambler with a way with the ladies.The gambler is Stewart Granger and the girl is Jean Simmons and this strange love story was concocted for the two of them who were in a hot and heavy affair at the time. What didn't work for Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple in That Hagen Girl or for Herbert Marshall and Simone Simon in Girl's Dormitory does work here. I'm guessing the skill of the players or a better script or both. You decide if you watch the movie.Simmons leaves the orphanage and comes to live with Granger and the two become attracted. Of course at some point Granger has to disabuse of the notion he's really her father. And then when that happens people start talking. He's also been seeing on and off Helen Cherry who was Mrs. Trevor Howard in real life and she's not liking seeing Jean poaching on territory she staked out.Granger and Simmons went on to get married and make to more films for MGM in America. One of them, Young Bess casts her as young Queen Elizabeth I and Granger as Thomas Seymour the much older admiral who tried to take advantage of then Princess Elizabeth to further his ambitions. He and the whole family came to a sorry end. In a way Young Bess is a dark version of Adam And Evelyn.Not the best film for either of the stars, but their fans should like it.

Enjoyed this film which I had my doubts about until I viewed the great acting of Jean Simmons, (Evelyn Wallace) and Stewart Granger, (Adam Black). This story is about a young girl Evelyn who lives in an orphanage and receives letters from her father telling her he is going to visit her someday and take her home where he raises horses. However, this is really not her father but a good friend of her father's Adam Black. Evelyn's father passes away and he asks Adam to take care of his daughter and he promises to look after her. There are very funny scenes and some very dramatic moments along with many lies which have been told and have to be explained to poor Evelyn Wallace. In real life, Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger were married and had a child. Great Classic film from 1949, enjoy.

I had been told to see this movie by a friend, if just for a sight of Stewart Granger with a moustache and I wasn't disappointed. Granger and Jean Simmons work beautifully together again, in this movie based on the concept of a young girl falling in love with an older man - and one she believes to begin with is her father!! Simmons is adorable as the young girl, whisked away from a life of labour and far more likeable in this role than any other. I loved the final scene between the two of them and the running joke that Granger looked better with his moustache after all! Not one to watch if you don't like continuous remakes of the 'old man, young girl' scenario, but in this case it works to perfection.