In an Arizona diner by a forest made of stone, a hobo of an Englishman who's wandering alone, pops in for some refreshment though he doesn't have a dime, encounters Gabrielle and thinks this lass is worth some time. She tells him of her dreams and how she wants to go to France, her mother went back there to Bourges at the end of her romance, there's connection and some magic that the pair begin to weave, until Boze becomes belligerent and the traveller needs to leave...
... although it's not too long before they all regather at the diner in the company of Duke Mantee and his band of hunted outlaws waiting for his broad to show. It's not the greatest piece of filmmaking you've ever seen, I'm not sure it would have been a particularly brilliant stage production either. Leslie Howard is a tough character to accept as genuine, then or now, the dialogue's a bit daft at times, Bette Davis uses her eyes to great effect and the career of the great Humphrey Bogart gets a boost in a villainous role he would evolve several times over the next two decades.
... although it's not too long before they all regather at the diner in the company of Duke Mantee and his band of hunted outlaws waiting for his broad to show. It's not the greatest piece of filmmaking you've ever seen, I'm not sure it would have been a particularly brilliant stage production either. Leslie Howard is a tough character to accept as genuine, then or now, the dialogue's a bit daft at times, Bette Davis uses her eyes to great effect and the career of the great Humphrey Bogart gets a boost in a villainous role he would evolve several times over the next two decades.