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Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him. Written by
Ian Harries <ih@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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The original ending of the film called for Joe and Mabel to be shot to death, but the commercial failure of
You Only Live Once, which had a tragic ending, compelled the Warner Bros. studio heads to demand a happy ending. When writer
Robert Rossen refused to write the new ending,
Seton I. Miller was brought in to write it.
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Remade as
I Was Framed (1942)
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Soundtracks
"Dust Be My Destiny"
(uncredited)
Music by
Max Steiner and
M.K. Jerome
Lyrics by
Jack Scholl
Played on the radio in the hotel room
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Down on his luck John Garfield finally sees his fortunes improve, and I do mean improve, when he teams up with Priscilla Lane. But the bad luck returns and the two end up on the lam for what turns out to be a pretty good movie.
A few scenes shot on location spice things up a bit and there are some very nice supporting performances as well.
The lead actors, John Garfield and the beautiful Priscilla Lane, work well together, as evidenced in their previous work on Four Daughters and Daughters Courageous.