This Woman is Mine (1941) DVD-R

Starring Franchot Tone, John Carroll, Walter Brennan, Carol Bruce, Nigel Bruce, Leo G.
Carroll, Sig Ruman
Directed by Frank Lloyd

Print: black/white
Runtime: 92 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B-

One would never know it from the title, but This Woman is Mine is a virile seafaring yarn
dealing with the northern fur trade. Based on a sprawling novel by Gilbert W. Gabriel, the film
takes place during a trading expedition from New York to Oregon, bankrolled by John Jacob
Astor (played by Sig Ruman!) Ship's captain Jonathan Thorn (Walter Brennan) is a stern
taskmaster in the Captain Bligh tradition, who demands 110 percent from his passengers
and crew members, among them bookkeper Robert Stevens (Franchot Tone),
French-Canadian adventurer Ovide de Montigny (John Carroll) and pretty stowaway Julie
Morgan (Carol Bruce). The anticipated romantic triangle develops, but this is forgotten when
Thorn's vessel is besiged by hostile Indians on the banks of the Columbia River. A literally
explosive conclusion more than compensates for the narrative silliness that precedes it.