This unfortunately boring social justice film lacks intriguing details and characters worth rooting for. The film deals with orange grove migrants who become angered over injustices they believe have been perpetrated against them and deal with the murder of one of their leaders with wealthy Ralph Morgan accused of the crime and his son (Barry MacKay) doing his best to prevent a lynch mob from stringing him up.
Rochelle Hudson, once a leading lady in A features at the big studios, is reduced to a dull romantic interest here. Cliff Edwards provides a bit of light comedy, but basically, he's just vocal support for Mackay. The audience knows that Morgan is innocent, but there's not much action outside of the exposition of the first half. The gathering of the crowd of the angry lynch mob is really the only tense moment in this. Even TV prints cut by 10 minutes doesn't make this memorable because there's never any doubt as to how it will turn out.
Rochelle Hudson, once a leading lady in A features at the big studios, is reduced to a dull romantic interest here. Cliff Edwards provides a bit of light comedy, but basically, he's just vocal support for Mackay. The audience knows that Morgan is innocent, but there's not much action outside of the exposition of the first half. The gathering of the crowd of the angry lynch mob is really the only tense moment in this. Even TV prints cut by 10 minutes doesn't make this memorable because there's never any doubt as to how it will turn out.
