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Sunday, May 13, 1984
9:25PM
One More Spring
An odd trio shacking up in a Central Park toolshed form the subject of a charming, intimate Depression comedy which William K. Everson notes is “now virtually a lost film due to deterioration of original material. One More Spring should be the definitive Depression comedy, toppling the sophisticated (but quite dishonest) My Man Godfrey from its throne. One More Spring has plenty of comedy too, but encased within a framework of whimsey, and when it needs to be honest or dramatic it pulls no punches. In many ways (it is) an offbeat companion picture to Borzage's A Man's Castle (see May 20)...though already (in 1935) being a little dated, based as it was on an earlier play, and being forced by the Production Code to pull in its horns a little...especially in the matter of how the would-be actress heroine actually makes a living. It's sprightly, often quite moving. Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter star, but the big surprises are Walter Woolf King in perhaps his only good movie role (he was too often used as a stuffy stooge for Laurel & Hardy and the Marx Brothers) and Stepin Fetchit, in a devastatingly funny supporting role.”
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