One More Spring

One of the most unjustly neglected films of its period and a fascinating reflection of Depression-era culture. Director Henry King has been justly praised for the recurring themes of Americana found in his work, and this fine film deserves place of pride in his oeuvre. ONE MORE SPRING is an amusing and very touching tale of a group of down-and-outers who team together to help each other out. Baxter is Otkar, an antique dealer with nothing left but a bed which belonged to Napoleon. He runs into unemployed musician Morris Rosenberg (King, in the finest performance of his career and one of the few uncaricatured portraits of a Jew in films of the post-Code period). The...