Saturday, February 23, 2013

1933 - DR BULL, for John Ford completists only

John Ford is a few years off from entering his best period in film making.  Dr. Bull is I believe his  first collaboration with Will Rogers.

John Ford directs Will Rogers
  Dr. Bull is a comedy/drama about a doctor up against small town narrow mindedness and capitalism, but this is film is a very minor indictment of those themes.  Will Rogers is Dr. Bull and Ford does a pretty good job of keeping his "as shucks Goober persona" under control. 

This is a minor but not uninteresting film made on a relatively small budget during the depression.  There are not a lot of visual flourishes in the film but for an early sound film it's pretty easy to watch and it is short.

  77 minutes, written by Paul Green, Philip Klein, Jane Storm and James Gould Cozzens.

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