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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
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16 September 1939 (USA)
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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...
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I could not see anything interesting in this film.
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Garfield | ... | Joe Bell | |
| Priscilla Lane | ... | Mabel Alden | |
| Alan Hale | ... | Michael 'Mike' Leonard | |
| Frank McHugh | ... | Caruthers | |
| Billy Halop | ... | Hank Glenn | |
| Bobby Jordan | ... | Jimmy Glenn | |
| Charley Grapewin | ... | Pop, a Brakeman | |
| Henry Armetta | ... | Nick Spelucci | |
| Stanley Ridges | ... | Charles 'Charlie' Garreth | |
| John Litel | ... | Prosecutor | |
| Moroni Olsen | ... | Slim Jones, Joe's Defense Attorney | |
| Victor Kilian | ... | Doc Saunders | |
| Frank Jaquet | ... | Ab Connors | |
| Ferike Boros | ... | Delicatessen Proprietress | |
| Marc Lawrence | ... | Venetti |
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88 min
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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 (1937), 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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Featured in The John Garfield Story (2003) (TV)
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This film did not go well with me at all, despite my expectations based on the name of J. Garfield. This is the first film I see with him, and I couldn't tell at all why he should be so well-known; no good-looks, no charisma, no powerful acting. However I read somewhere that Garfield himself didn't like the part and eventually broke his contract with the WB because he was being typecast. That might explain some things. And I agree that the small character roles are nice, but I find the dialogues too forcefully funny, so in the end not funny at all. The plot goes on and on, each time following the same lines of Joe Bell mistrusting people, proven wrong, getting his hopes high, then disappointed because he can not settle being searched by the police. And so many setting changes are really too much for such a studio film; from the prison to the camp, to the on-stage wedding [the worst bit], Nick's diner, trains, other towns, etc. Finally, the social theme of the film is being underlined to the point of redundancy, without ever elaborating on it an inch further.