Ernst Lubitsch and Samson Raphaelson’s charming and decidedly dark comedy stars Don Ameche as a turn of the century New York playboy who recounts the romantic mishaps of his life, including a long marriage to gorgeous Gene Tierney (a year before her star turn in “Laura”), to a dapper Satan (Laird Cregar) who will decide which way the recently deceased soul will go, up or down. This isn’t Lubitsch’s easiest film, the plodding Ameche monologue goes through the years in a leisurely manner, but when we get to the Tierney years, and Ameche’s pain at her sudden death, the somewhat playful narrative takes a heartbreaking turn, giving the bright Technicolor film a hint of regret and sadness at the cruel fates of love, time, and aging.