While the picture owes its basic design to Mr. Caldwell's play, the forces arrayed against its hero are not an exhausted soil or the irresistible invasion of money and machinery or even hereditary debility. It is much simpler and more exciting than that.

It may be trenchant realism, but these are times when there is a greater need. Escapism is the word.

Renoir's most successful American film, loose, free-flowing, honest.

I see solid realism in this Renoir film, the third filmed during his American term, very much in the style of Ford's 'The Grapes of Wrath'. [Full review in Spanish]