This Wellman movies begins roughly like another of his contemporary works "Lilly Turner".Both Lilly and Joan are about to get married.Only Lilly will survive because Lilly's world is the urban jungle whereas Joan heads for the country where happiness seems still possible for a pessimistic artist such as Wellman.
The scene on the train shows how hard it was (was?)for a farmer to get a wife .Wellman would come back to this subject on a large scale in what is probably his masterpiece "westward the women" film depicting the odyssey of the ladies on their way to meet their future husbands /pioneers.
Barbara Stanwyck,in spite of her classy look,achieves the feat of making us believe she can be a farmer's wife.The scene of her wedding is the least romantic I have ever seen: a husband who's got a cold and who does not stop sniffing,two witnesses a coarse matron baking cakes and a half wit,a ring which falls into the dough.
Joan shows remarkable resiliency and courage-she already displayed it in the scene when she refused any money from her ex-wealthy fiancé-transforming herself from a girl with a racy past to one of the most beaming wife .The last scene suggest the not-so-newly-wed are to share a bed for the first time.
I have still to find a movie by Wellman I do not like.
Like this? try these.....
"The wind " Victor Sjöström 1928
"Wild is the wind" George Cukor 1957
"The sea of grass" Elia Kazan 1946
"Giant" George Stevens 1955 (first part)
The scene on the train shows how hard it was (was?)for a farmer to get a wife .Wellman would come back to this subject on a large scale in what is probably his masterpiece "westward the women" film depicting the odyssey of the ladies on their way to meet their future husbands /pioneers.
Barbara Stanwyck,in spite of her classy look,achieves the feat of making us believe she can be a farmer's wife.The scene of her wedding is the least romantic I have ever seen: a husband who's got a cold and who does not stop sniffing,two witnesses a coarse matron baking cakes and a half wit,a ring which falls into the dough.
Joan shows remarkable resiliency and courage-she already displayed it in the scene when she refused any money from her ex-wealthy fiancé-transforming herself from a girl with a racy past to one of the most beaming wife .The last scene suggest the not-so-newly-wed are to share a bed for the first time.
I have still to find a movie by Wellman I do not like.
Like this? try these.....
"The wind " Victor Sjöström 1928
"Wild is the wind" George Cukor 1957
"The sea of grass" Elia Kazan 1946
"Giant" George Stevens 1955 (first part)