One More Spring (1935) DVD-R

Starring Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Walter Woolf King, Jane Darwell,
Roger Imhof, Grant Mitchell, Rosemary Ames, John Qualen, Dick Foran,
Astrid Allwyn
Directed by Henry King

Print: black/white
Runtime: 87 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

One More Spring is a laundered version of Robert Nathan's whimsical
Depression-era novel. Left destitute by the Wall Street crash are an odd
assortment of lost souls: Former antique dealer Otkar (Warner Baxter),
concert violinist Rosenberg (Walter Woolf King) and unemployed actress
Elizabeth (Janet Gaynor). Kindly Central Park street cleaner Sweeney
(Roger Imhof) allows the threesome — later a foursome when they're
joined by suicidal banker Sheridan (Grant Mitchell) — to live in an
abandoned tool shed. Chastely, the three men and the girl survive a
tough winter, remaining hopeful that things will be better in the Spring
(as indeed they are!) At one point, Elizabeth manages to raise enough
money for a week's worth of food, leading the men to conclude that she's
taken to streetwalking. But, no, our heroine remains chaste and pure to
the very end (in the novel, Elizabeth was a streetwalker, but that's
another story). The most indelible image in One More Spring is the sight
of Otkar and Rosenberg blithely roasting a tiny pigeon over an open fire.