Embarrassed to say but I just watched Frank Borzage’s Man’s Castle for the first time this week.
Wow, what a movie!
Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young are both excellent but the way the movie plows headlong into the plight of desperate people during the despression is remarkable. There are some obvious hard cuts in the movie because when they re-released it a few years later, they cut out 9 minutes of stuff considered too offensive in the era of the production code. But, hell, what they left in is still pretty amazing.
And that ending! If you haven’t seen it, I won’t spoil it.
Favorite line in the whole movie: “Murder? This ain’t murder. This is housecleaning.”
Great stuff.
