• 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