I watched YOLO last night and this morning I can't recall much of the hilarity and comedy noted by a few other reviewers. Oh, OK, there was the unnecessary and annoying early sequence with the shopkeeper complaining about stolen apples, and the landlord and his wife plucking up courage to ask Fonda and his wife to leave.
The film became increasingly sombre, then depressing, as the fugitive couple's plight worsened. Given that the Hollywood mores of the 1937s dictated that a criminal, however hard done by, had to receive retribution, the end was predictable.
Interesting to see Barton MacClane get third billing after I'd seen him further down the cast list in so many Westerns, but his was a very flat performance. Also interesting to note Guinn "Big Boy" Williams in a straight role as a prison guard rather than as a comic sidekick.
I have a little difficult in assessing what sort of personality the Fonda character had. Three times inside and still so young suggested a weak, criminal character, and Fonda, though an excellent actor, seldom did weakness. But what a cluck: starting a new job and very much on probation, he's 90 minutes late on a delivery run because he's checking out a new home. And then Sidney moves into it without telling him - just as he loses his job for unpunctuality.
I wasn't convinced by the last-minute reprieve that was still too late, as Eddie could still have been implicated in the robbery despite the bank van being found with someone else inside. And Joan seemed very nimble for someone who was pregnant - unless she and Eddie were on the run for a very long time.
The film became increasingly sombre, then depressing, as the fugitive couple's plight worsened. Given that the Hollywood mores of the 1937s dictated that a criminal, however hard done by, had to receive retribution, the end was predictable.
Interesting to see Barton MacClane get third billing after I'd seen him further down the cast list in so many Westerns, but his was a very flat performance. Also interesting to note Guinn "Big Boy" Williams in a straight role as a prison guard rather than as a comic sidekick.
I have a little difficult in assessing what sort of personality the Fonda character had. Three times inside and still so young suggested a weak, criminal character, and Fonda, though an excellent actor, seldom did weakness. But what a cluck: starting a new job and very much on probation, he's 90 minutes late on a delivery run because he's checking out a new home. And then Sidney moves into it without telling him - just as he loses his job for unpunctuality.
I wasn't convinced by the last-minute reprieve that was still too late, as Eddie could still have been implicated in the robbery despite the bank van being found with someone else inside. And Joan seemed very nimble for someone who was pregnant - unless she and Eddie were on the run for a very long time.