What starts out being a standard Warner Brothers drama ends up being something quite beautiful.
Examining two people who live on the fringes of society and at first are out for the main chance but through circumstances find something unexpected the film shows how it changes them.
Dane Clark is excellent in one of his better parts, a man who has fallen in with a bad crowd but is himself still at heart a decent man. Geraldine Brooks character is a pretty hard article when we meet her but she undergoes the biggest transformation during the picture's running time. She and Dane have a terrific chemistry and both Wallace Ford and S.Z. Sakall make strong impressions in support.
Now about the last scene, it's exquisite. Somehow while the picture is entertaining all the way through, if unremarkable, suddenly when it reaches its conclusion it moves into another level. Have the tissues handy.
Examining two people who live on the fringes of society and at first are out for the main chance but through circumstances find something unexpected the film shows how it changes them.
Dane Clark is excellent in one of his better parts, a man who has fallen in with a bad crowd but is himself still at heart a decent man. Geraldine Brooks character is a pretty hard article when we meet her but she undergoes the biggest transformation during the picture's running time. She and Dane have a terrific chemistry and both Wallace Ford and S.Z. Sakall make strong impressions in support.
Now about the last scene, it's exquisite. Somehow while the picture is entertaining all the way through, if unremarkable, suddenly when it reaches its conclusion it moves into another level. Have the tissues handy.