Sensitively directed, well-acted and amazingly photographed love story

The third Gaynor-Farrell picture I have watched, and quality-wise it sits somewhere in the middle between '7th Heaven' and 'Street Angel', though perhaps closer to '7th Heaven'. 'Lucky Star' is a sensitively directed, well-acted and amazingly photographed love story. Janet Gaynor develops from a prickly, lying and cheating brat to a beautiful young woman - she changes fundamentally, but in a way that convinces the viewer. The other characters stay largely the same. Charles Farrell is the nice guy, and that he does not drown in self-pity after having lost the use of his legs makes him likeable. His antagonist, Guinn Williams, is the more interesting person. He plays really well - I found his mix of bonhomie, lying and threatening quite fascinating. What makes 'Lucky Star' a little less good than '7th Heaven' is the ending. After having spent months in a wheelchair, Farrell regains the use of his legs basically within an afternoon. All of a sudden, he is able to walk quite a distance through deep snow. Seriously. With a better ending I would have rated the film 8 stars; as it is, it gets 7. But it is still a very good picture.

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