Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.5/10   

Director:

Ricardo Cortez

Escritores:

Dalton Trumbo (story)
Dalton Trumbo (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 noviembre 1939 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

New York store clerk (Ford) joins a hobo (Conte) and an illegal immigrant (Rogers) heading for his newly bought land in Arizona. |

Plot Keywords:

Hobo | Arizona | Immigrant | Professor | Fugitive

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Good Film

Reparto

Jean Rogers	...	Anita Santos
Raymond Walburn	...	B. Townsend Thayer - The Professor
Marjorie Rambeau	...	Mamie
Glenn Ford	...	Joe Riley
Richard Conte	...	Tony Casselli (as Nicholas Conte)
Eddie Collins	...	Bill - Counterman
Ward Bond	...	Hunk
Irving Bacon	...	Sheriff Clem Diggers
Kay Linaker	...	Nurse

Duración:

62 min (FMC Library Print)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA High Fidelity Recording)

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (PCA #5488) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Newhall, California, USA

Compañía:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

Debut of Richard Conte (billed as Nicholas Conte).

Banda de Sonido:

Forty-Second Street

Good Film

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)

*** (out of 4)

A poor New Yorker (Glenn Ford) saves all of his money for six years so that he can buy a ranch in Arizona. Once he has the deed he sets off by train for Arizona where he also meets a hobo (Ricardo Conte) and a Spanish immigrant (Jean Rogers). This film was the debuts of Ford and Conte and both men turn in winning performances but the real prize here is Rogers who is simply delightful and carries the film. When I first saw Ford I didn't recognize him due to how small he looked. The story is pretty good, if standard stuff and the 62-minute running time keeps things moving along. The sappy ending doesn't really work but there are plenty of laughs and nice moments throughout. However, this is another film rotting away in Fox's vault.