This is a great cast. I love the movies from this time - the title cards, the opening song, the green screens, the whole way these are produced. Charles Laughton directs and Robert Mitchum stars as a murderous preacher. Plus any movie that starts with a dead body has got to be good.
As for the plot - well it’s wild and goes unexpected places. Set in the Great Depression and full of orphans, drunks and small town simple folk,…
For a long time I’ve heard about how good this movie is from a bunch of people and I have to admit that in part because of that I resisted seeing it. I figured there was no way I could be as good as people said and I wasn’t sure the movie that’s sort of about sports and sort of about love was even going to be interesting to me.
Well I was wrong. This movie was wonderful. There were…
Delightful to rewatch this with friends from the best movie podcast out there. Parts of the film "don't age well" but still great fun to share as part of a great day
