Cinematheque: Frank Borzage

Directed by Frank Borzage, US, 1933, 35mm, 75 min. Fast-paced and swooningly romantic, Borzage’s pre-code masterpiece stars Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young, whose affection for each other transcends the Depression in a New York shantytown. "Borzage never needed dream worlds for his suspensions of disbelief. He plunged into the real world of poverty and oppression, the world of Roosevelt and Hitler, the New Deal and the New Order, to impart an aura to his characters, ..." (Andrew Sarris)