NOTES: Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, losing to How Green Was My Valley.
VIEWERS' GUIDE: Okay for all.
COMMENT: Irving Rapper's direction is so dull and the burden of the script is carried so heavily by the dialogue, one could black out the picture altogether if you were prepared to sacrifice Weyl's fine sets.
March's performance comes over as appropriately quiet and understanding, but his preaching lacks oomph. Martha Scott portrays her usual nondescript self.
Fortunately a great support cast is on hand. Coupled with lavish production values, One Foot in Heaven has yet a modest (in the best sense of that word) assurance and dignity that makes for quite pleasing entertainment.
Connoisseurs will also enjoy the copious extracts from The Silent Man (1917, the right year too) directed by and starring William S. Hart.
VIEWERS' GUIDE: Okay for all.
COMMENT: Irving Rapper's direction is so dull and the burden of the script is carried so heavily by the dialogue, one could black out the picture altogether if you were prepared to sacrifice Weyl's fine sets.
March's performance comes over as appropriately quiet and understanding, but his preaching lacks oomph. Martha Scott portrays her usual nondescript self.
Fortunately a great support cast is on hand. Coupled with lavish production values, One Foot in Heaven has yet a modest (in the best sense of that word) assurance and dignity that makes for quite pleasing entertainment.
Connoisseurs will also enjoy the copious extracts from The Silent Man (1917, the right year too) directed by and starring William S. Hart.