If I was a little out of sorts at watching Clark Gable play an idealistic doctor, it was like being in an alternate universe watching him portray a reverend. The story itself is a bit strange; a trapeze artist gets injured, and is taken into the home of the local minister, and they fall in love. Apparently, it's a remake of a 1917 picture, and I can't help but wonder who thought this story needed to be made more than once.
I enjoy watching Spencer Tracy and Bing Crosby play parish leaders, but I just couldn't believe Gable as a humble, devout, reverend with aspirations of becoming a bishop.
Of course this courtship is characterized the judgement and criticism of the parishioners and his bishop uncle.
The movie is only an hour and nine minutes, but since it's not a very exciting story, it seems alot longer.
It's not that I don't enjoy stories of star-crossed lovers or the whole 'opposites attract' theory, but they're usually a little more exciting than this one.
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