When a politician comes by the house to solicit Chic Sales' vote for congressman, Chic tells him what happened to his son, crippled in the war, using the words of Irving Bacheller's poem, which the opening titles declare is a post-War classic. I suppose that it's the First World War that refers to. By the time I was in school, a quarter of a century had passed, 'Post-War' meant after the Second World War, and I never heard of this poem until now. Sales' delivery lacks the tempo we associate with recited poetry, although there's no doubt where the line breaks occur.
Mr. Sales was 53 when this movie came out, and was one of the experts at playing old.. He hit the movies in the 1920s, first with Christie, but became MGM's resident Rural Coot in the 1930s available to play Civil War veterans and grandfathers. He died in 1936, aged 51.
Mr. Sales was 53 when this movie came out, and was one of the experts at playing old.. He hit the movies in the 1920s, first with Christie, but became MGM's resident Rural Coot in the 1930s available to play Civil War veterans and grandfathers. He died in 1936, aged 51.
