The least entertaining Hardy film to date rehashes the same story of You’re Only Young Once and Judge Hardy’s Children – the family head out to an exotic location (the West, where a friend of the Hardy’s run a ranch), Judge gets into a financial pickle and risks his entire fortune (again), Andy learns humility (again), Marian falls in love with an inappropriate man (again), mother doesn’t do much other than be supportive and say it’ll all turn out alright (again).
Lots of unpleasant scenes: mother cries after doing some bad household duties and says she feels like killing herself (have some more prozac mother), despite having a boyfriend Marian falls for a widowed cowboy and wants to marry him but Judge Hardy talks her out of it by getting her to do – ha ha – housework for him, Andy almost kills a horse and cries like a girl, a little girl (daughter of widowed cowboy) says girls shouldn’t take credit for things even if they’re better than men, Andy says “who-hoo another Indian bites the dust”.
Andy isn’t given a romantic subplot apart from Polly Benedict shenanigans at the beginning and end. Ann Rutherford’s Polly is a breath of fresh air at the end – it’s a shame she couldn’t have been in the film more. Don Castle also reappears as Marian's boyfriend, who she just met at the end of Love Finds Andy Hardy - he's like the engineer she went out with in the first few films, just popping in at the end on the tail of some romance she'd had.
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