When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
Director: Clifford Odets
Stars: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, George Coulouris.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037135/
just got an official release to replace the bootleg I had.
A very different CG performance, playing a lower-class character with very little charm. He makes unexpected choices which make sense with hindsight, but only if you accept that he's changing.
This is also pro-war propaganda, although that is only mentioned as bookends, as though tacked on. This is not gung-ho for war; just says it's sometimes necessary. The time within the film is stil the 30s.
I don't want to discuss the film. I'd seen it before, but didn't remember enough to realize/remember what was going to happen. I'd rather have that experience again in the future. But I previously rated this 7.
Rated 6.6 (1,962)
RKO, dir. Odets; 7
