1935 Silent melodrama
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Henry King
Howard Estabrook, William Huribut, from the 1920 film by Anthony Paul Kelly
Rated: NR
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Fifteen years after the silent collaboration of DW Griffith and Lillian Gish, Fox handed a sound version to
Henry King and Rochelle Hudson, with
Henry Fonda in the Richard
Barthelmess role. King's work is all right, especially his re-creation of the ice-river climax, but Hudson is no
match for Gish, leaving the honours to
the great man Fonda in a much smaller role. The
major problem lies in the material
which, by the mid-1930s, played as
outmoded period melodrama.
