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
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