The direction, by Clarence Brown, of this poignant melodrama set in the Ohio Valleys before and during the American Civil War, is sensitive and pictorially very imaginative; and he extracts superb performances from Walter Huston, James Stewart and Beulah Bondi. The plot, about the resentful son of a martinet clergyman who becomes determined to make a go of his life as a doctor despite abject poverty, is often syrupy but Brown overcomes the storyline faults with a lively eye and spritely visuals.


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