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God's Country and the Woman. There's a title to build a dream on or a nation or make an epic.
Graham Greene, who was into film criticism in the 1930s, said that the plot of God's Country and the Woman may roughly be described as a combination of Romeo and Juliet and the taming of the shrew.
Well, they're big words too, aren't they? What a delightful idea.
God's Country and the Woman is quite funny, it's quite spectacular, wonderful outdoors photography in Technicolor.
It's a beautiful print by the way, it has a score by Max Steiner. You can't take it seriously for a minute, although I'm sure some people who are concerned with conservation will get quite upset by it.
Please, before you put pen to paper and write to me terrible things, remember I did not make the film. I present it to you as a valuable historical document and as such a very entertaining one as well.
It's based on a novel by James Oliver Kerwood that had been filmed some years before as a silent movie. It was set in British Columbia and shot in the state of Washington in the United States and what an area it was shot in.
Right from its first opening shot it's just wonderful and by the way I think you'll enjoy the credit titles the way they begin. It looks just as if they've got a touch of the Walt Disney's right at the start of the film.
I may have just mentioned that the film is quite funny, it's very light hearted and the two leading players are George Brent. He had the good fortune to be the star of Warner Brothers first two Technicolor features, this one and gold is where you find it.
And the leading lady for Mr Brent is Beverly Roberts who was a star for about two minutes in the 1930s and that was that.
Very likeable young lady, very down to earth, nothing glamorous about Beverly Roberts and you can believe she's the kind of girl who could run a lumber camp.
Here's a fine actor seen with Beverly Roberts and George Brent, Robert Barrett, one of the great stalwart supporting actors at Warner Brothers in the 1930s could tackle any kind of role. I like him.
And his and George Brent's name is the name of a lumber company in the film that you'll see fairly early and that is our third question, what is the name of the lumber company?
Interesting people in the supporting cast, it will not tax you at all this film, relax, enjoy and marvel that Warner Brothers were able to make this largely on location at the end of 36, the beginning of 37, it was successful at the box office
and during the course of the film one of the valuable Technicolor cameras took a dive into the river when a logjam explosion was put together a bit too zealously by the special effects man, he used three cases of dynamite and it went up 50 yards and into the river went a Technicolor camera, later rescued and put into use again.
God's country in the woman, most entertaining and you'll love I'm sure the music of Max Diner.