Famously likeable James Stewart did his share of dramatic roles, although most were of simple, everyday fellas, so in CARBINE WILLIAMS he gets to play a determined, insanely stubborn loser...
Although he starts out nice enough in a frame story about the titular gun-maker whose backstory begins with a perfect marriage contrasting a secret, very illegal and dangerous moonshine gig...
But CARBINE is mostly a hard-line prison flick, initially of the chain-gang nature, and Stewart does a pretty good job as a convict who refuses to give in, even to logic when there's a nice-enough warden (Wendell Corey) on the last stretch...
As Stewart remains an edgy, sullen wishbone between token rebel Paul Stewart, always planning an escape, while avoiding perfectly-patient wife Jean Hagen in a nifty biopic with a little more run-time than the usual time-filling programmer.
Although he starts out nice enough in a frame story about the titular gun-maker whose backstory begins with a perfect marriage contrasting a secret, very illegal and dangerous moonshine gig...
But CARBINE is mostly a hard-line prison flick, initially of the chain-gang nature, and Stewart does a pretty good job as a convict who refuses to give in, even to logic when there's a nice-enough warden (Wendell Corey) on the last stretch...
As Stewart remains an edgy, sullen wishbone between token rebel Paul Stewart, always planning an escape, while avoiding perfectly-patient wife Jean Hagen in a nifty biopic with a little more run-time than the usual time-filling programmer.