This expensive MGM film was a labor of love for the director King Vidor who not only produced the film but also wrote the story. The film was filmed in technicolor by Harold Rossen so it couldn't have been cheap to make. MGM professed to like the film but went ahead and cut 30 minutes out of Vidor's finished film. Vidor was so angry that he ended his association with MGM a studio he had worked at since 1923.
The film is rather unsatisfactory cast with Brian Donlevy playing the lead, an immigrant who rises to the top of a company he has built. Vidor shoots a lot of scenes of factories assembling cars and planes and it's all kind of interesting up to a point.
It would have been interesting to see how the film would have played if it hadn't been hacked to pieces. As it is it's kind of fascinating.
Written by Herbert Dalmas and William Ludwig, running time 121 minutes.
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