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Man's Castle (1933)
Director: Frank Borzage
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Borzage was responsible for some of the oddest Hollywood films of the '30s, and few can be more bizarre than Man's Castle, a heated Depression melodrama (from a play by Lawrence Hazard) with Tracy and Young as a pair of incurably optimistic lovers attempting to set up house together in shantytown. Their amoral romantic passion for each other is sufficient in Borzage's eyes to justify theft, even murder. The film ends with one of the director's most poetic images: the couple lying in each other's arms in a boxcar, she still in her wedding-dress.Author: RM
Cast & crew
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Arthur Hohl, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly full cast
Duration: 80 mins
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