Weary River (1929)
5/10
Terrific Tune, sadly dated flick
29 March 2003
Having known that this was one of the three films cited by The Academy the year Frank Lloyd won (although for Divine Lady), I was glad to finally catch it on TCM. Part-talkie, a very unusual situation in itself, the movie is woefully dated (but what would you expect for any film more than seventy years old!).

That said, I thoroughly enjoyed the elegaic title tune (which as an earlier reviewer mentioned, is played frequently during the film). Don't know if that was really Richard Barthelmess singing, but a memorable song it is.
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