These Wilder Years
Summary:
The MGM melodrama These Wilder Years marked the first onscreen pairing of Hollywood stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck. Lonely middle-aged businessman Steve Bradford (Cagney) returns to his old town in hopes of finding the son he fathered 20 years earlier. Choosing his career over marriage and family, he got a girl pregnant and she gave the baby up for adoption.... Full Summary >>
Cast:
James Cagney - (Steve Bradford)
Barbara Stanwyck - (Ann Dempster)
Walter Pidgeon - (James Rayburn)
Betty Lou Keim - (Suzie Keller)
Don Dubbins - (Mark)
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Review:
These Wilder Years is a fairly typical 1950s tearjerker, a Douglas Sirk film without Sirk's strangely appealing directorial hand to guide it. Director Roy Rowland's approach is workmanlike and reasonably effective, but it cannot transform the material the way that Sirk could when at his best. Frank Fenton's screenplay is manipulat... Continue >>
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