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Man’s Castle – 1933 Borzage
- Features Borzage’s trademark heart-warming well-earned melodrama
- Stunning romantic tale of a extraordinarily sweet Loretta Young and a streetwise tough-on-the-outside but all heart inside Spencer Tracy in a great early role for him
- Harsh poverty depression era romance
- Hard to find because of the hays code- there’s a pregnant girl here out of wedlock and even a first date skinny-dipping scene
- Tracy is a streetwise tour-guide man of the world who responds to repeated sounds of a train (his way of saying “I’m a rambler”) and an open blue sky (saying “no one woman can hold me down”),etc
- He’s gregarious, large and charming
- Graceful tracking shot of Young looking longingly at a stove in a window to buy
- Clearly Borzage is his own artist (has much in common with seventh heaven, street angel and even a farewell to arms but he’s also influenced by murnau’s sunrise—clearly the narrative is influenced by the film but also a superimposed sliding background during a tracking shot is as well
- Great scene of Tracy on stilts showing his character by getting an autograph for a kid
- With love in his eyes he repeatedly calls her skinny
- Devastating ending as the rambling man who is so tough breaks down—well earned
- Final crane shot tracking out on the two together is a great conclusion
- Highly Recommend – top 10 of the year quality
Drake2017-11-02T15:19:44+00:00
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