Review of The World Changes

This sweeping soap opera always moves rapidly, but most of it is told in a linear fashion and is populated by only a few characters at a time. This mode of storytelling ends abruptly with the appearance of many characters and a highly involved climax. It's not Eugene O'Neill, but it's certainly entertaining and may have you rewinding your DVR or DVD more than once. Also, Paul Muni is brilliant, as usual ("They're just selling papers," he says of newspaper boys hawking Wall Street editions on the eve of the 1929 crash); the rest of the performers are strong, too; and it was made, as at least one line of its dialogue betrays, in the pre-Code days. Worth a look.