Captain Angus Swope (Noab Beery), known as The Black Yankee, skipper of the Golden Bough, treats his crew shamefully and he treats women no better, as evidenced by his handling of a woman he has abducted, together with her baby daughter, Mary (Sally Blaine), from seaman Newman (Willard Robertson). When the woman dies as a result of his cruelty, he brings up Mary as his own daughter.
Is it worth your Saturday afternoon? Honestly, only if you have a soft spot for pre-code melodrama that doesn't mind being a bit mean-spirited. If you need your protagonists to be likable or the pacing to be brisk, you’re going to hate this one. It's the kind of movie that feels like it’s trying to punch you in the gut...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
George B. Seitz
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"Is it worth your Saturday afternoon? Honestly, only if you have a soft spot for pre-code melodrama that doesn't mind being a bit mean-spirited. If you need your protagonists to be likable or the pacing to be brisk, you’re going to hate this one. It's the kind of movie that feels like it’s trying to punch you in the gut, but sometimes it just ends up throwing air instead. Noah Beery as Captain Swope is just nasty. Like, cartoonishly villainous in a way that feels oddly grounded because he’s so c..."
Lionel Belmore
Jack Cunningham, Roy Chanslor, Norman Springer
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