John Boles plays a guy who goes off the Europe to get musical training while his wife stays home with their son. However, when he returns he finds that the wife his divorced him and remarried--after all, she found some rich guy to take care of her. She is pretty indifferent to the kid and placed him in military school. Boles fetches the child and moves into a cheap rooming house with him. Things look pretty dim, as time after time, Boles is told there is no work and he wonders how much longer he can keep the boy or provide for him.
This is a very weepy soaper and it's very easy to like Boles and the boy and hate the selfish she-hag mother. The film really tugs at your heart and even though you know it will all work out in the end (it always did with these sort of films back in the old days), it's enjoyable and worth seeing. One reason in particular to see the film is to hear John Boles' wonderful singing--he had a wonderful voice. Plus the schmaltzy story was good and didn't result in the cynical or curmudgeonly side of me to rear its ugly head! I also loved the character of the step-dad. Unlike the mother (who had the motherly instincts of a hungry hamster), he was a genuinely good man--and NOT the sort of stereotypical jerk you'd expect. Well-written and acted--and surprisingly good despite being a low-budget film.
This is a very weepy soaper and it's very easy to like Boles and the boy and hate the selfish she-hag mother. The film really tugs at your heart and even though you know it will all work out in the end (it always did with these sort of films back in the old days), it's enjoyable and worth seeing. One reason in particular to see the film is to hear John Boles' wonderful singing--he had a wonderful voice. Plus the schmaltzy story was good and didn't result in the cynical or curmudgeonly side of me to rear its ugly head! I also loved the character of the step-dad. Unlike the mother (who had the motherly instincts of a hungry hamster), he was a genuinely good man--and NOT the sort of stereotypical jerk you'd expect. Well-written and acted--and surprisingly good despite being a low-budget film.