UNION DEPOT is a must see for all fans of Pre-Code Hollywood movies! Its chief attractions are fluid camera movement, a fast moving plot involving hardboiled Warner Bros-type characters from the lower rungs of society, as well as plenty of sexual situations, humor, suspense and action. ***POSSIBLE SPOILER*** One may notice that after Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Alan Hale engage in a train yard fight - jumping off boxcars, crawling through gravel, rolling around over oily tracks, getting kicked and punched - they emerge inside the station a moment later looking perfectly intact! Not even a smear of grime on their cheeks or a disheveled lock of hair or a rip in the fabric of their garments! ***END OF POSSIBLE SPOILER***One can, of course, suspend disbelief like mad because the movie is so splendidly entertaining and colorfully cast. Joan Blondell has never been more charming or attractive, playing a "decent" girl who by economic necessity must mix with indecent people. And the ending is harsh and rather sad. What a refreshing piece of work!
Review of Union Depot
