The storyline was enjoyable. The sound quality at times was poor, especially with music playing over the top of voices. Visually the quality of the movie was worse at the start. But overall, given it is an early talkie, and film wasn't crisp like today, it was pretty good. You need to pay attention while watching to hear/see all that is going on.
The characters were perhaps a little "thin", but it's not a long movie to allow them to be developed more.
I would assume there would be some "shock" value in the movie for the time period - eg kissing in public, and the father beating his children (though we don't actually see that, just hear it).
Given the movie is nearly 90 years old now, we are critiquing it from a different perspective to someone seeing it at the time. And perhaps if I had been watching in 1930 I would have given it more stars.
It has funny parts to it (especially the last scene). It's definitely worth watching, especially from an historical perspective.
The characters were perhaps a little "thin", but it's not a long movie to allow them to be developed more.
I would assume there would be some "shock" value in the movie for the time period - eg kissing in public, and the father beating his children (though we don't actually see that, just hear it).
Given the movie is nearly 90 years old now, we are critiquing it from a different perspective to someone seeing it at the time. And perhaps if I had been watching in 1930 I would have given it more stars.
It has funny parts to it (especially the last scene). It's definitely worth watching, especially from an historical perspective.