Charles Farrell (Lem) has lived a sheltered life on a Minnesota farm and has been inexplicably tasked with going to the big city - Chicago - to get a good price for the family's wheat crop. His extremely strict father David Torrence has sent him with precise instructions on what price to sell at. His son completely fails on his mission and returns with a wife in the form of waitress Mary Duncan (Kate) whose dream is to get away from city life. Daddy Torrence is not happy.
This film is silent and also stars George W Bush as one of the farmhands who helps reap the wheat. It's the same dumb expression and he still had it in 1930. The story centres on human relationships between redneck farmboys, a pretty new girl on the scene, a simple farmboy who needs to man up and a mean old man who really needs to change his bully-boy outlook on life. Can things work out?
It has funny sections, picturesque sequences, dramatic moments and unfortunately a frustrating Charles Farrell. Who prays at a busy diner before eating? NOBODY. The acting is generally good and Duncan's female boss at the café really needed a bigger role. She was funny. The film gives us a slice of social history which is also of interest in the form of farming techniques and city crop markets. Anybody know why we are still eating corned beef?
This film is silent and also stars George W Bush as one of the farmhands who helps reap the wheat. It's the same dumb expression and he still had it in 1930. The story centres on human relationships between redneck farmboys, a pretty new girl on the scene, a simple farmboy who needs to man up and a mean old man who really needs to change his bully-boy outlook on life. Can things work out?
It has funny sections, picturesque sequences, dramatic moments and unfortunately a frustrating Charles Farrell. Who prays at a busy diner before eating? NOBODY. The acting is generally good and Duncan's female boss at the café really needed a bigger role. She was funny. The film gives us a slice of social history which is also of interest in the form of farming techniques and city crop markets. Anybody know why we are still eating corned beef?