Fun adaptation of the Howard Hawks film – I remember the first act of the film more vividly than the second and third, with it’s timber footage and fine old brawls in taverns involving Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer and Walter Brennan (the two guys re-appear with Anne Shirley standing in for Farmer). But actually on radio the second half holds up still pretty good too – I forgot the moving character of Arnold’s wife, who he married for money, and what a bitch the Farmer/Shirley daughter character became. The story deals with one of the great archetype themes – the regret that you married the wrong person. De Mille gives the Edward Arnold life story at the beginning - I had no idea he had such a tough up-bringing.
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