What was the name of the movie based on Fred Gipsons book The Home Place?”
The movie was released in ’52. The writer walks a fine line between drama and a happy-go-lucky attitude,epitomized by the rather dull hero (the Texan who returns home after his wife’s death in the city) and his reckless grandpa ,roguishly portrayed by Walter Brennan.The generation gap in reverse.Besides ,every time the plot seems to turn tragic (shots in the woods,the old man’s stroke,the threat of seizure -the banker’s letter is not what we expect-),dramatic impact is immediately defused.The rivalry between the hick and the doctor always remains friendly,never the two men show any animosity or hard feelings.The villain,Richard Boone,is the only real flaw of the story,the part being underwritten to a fault:what’s even more puzzling is that the wealthy woman he married ,Joanne Dru’s sister, never appears :she’s probably dead (?) but , except at the beginning ,the characters never make the slightest allusion to her. The tragedy only happens at the very end ,but all in all ,it’s not reall
