Why Spencer Tracy Is Great...
Just watching this film indicates how superior SPENCER TRACY was over his contemporaries and would be a force today. In this early FOX film, like his efforts at WARNER BROTHERS (W.B.) he dominates every scene, except when COLLEEN MOORE is with him. There he has a equal, more then KATHERINE HEPBURN was.
These early FOX and W.B. films show a harder edge then Mr. Tracy showed for the most part at M.G.M. Most likely it was the style of the respective studios and that they were 'pre-code'. M.G.M. being more of the 'white sliced bread' compared too the 'whole wheat' of some of their competitors.