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This is less absorbing, or quite possibly, I’m not able to get as silly over Fred MacMurray. Intermittently compelling relationship-turned-family drama about a boxer and a rich girl who fall in love, are baffled by class issues, learn the value of sacrifice. I think though I’m willing to forgive a lot for old-timey romances when I have a crush on at least one of the principals, at minimum, that the thing that keeps two people apart (the requisite narrative force in a romantic comedy or drama, after all) has to make sense. Here again, it doesn’t really, but there are some moving moments, particularly to do with the son who grows up not knowing, and not particularly loving, his title-seeking father. All that’s rather well done, and I don’t generally care for kids in cinema. Anyway, mixed bag, but it’s harmed in my girlish opinion by casting MacMurray instead of Grant, Boyer or Montgomery (none of whom, all right, should play boxers, but I’m into whatever).
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