Banjo on My Knee (1936)

 

 Academy Awards, USA 1937

Nominated Oscar

Best Sound, Recording Edmund H. Hansen (20th Century-Fox SSD)

Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by John Cromwell
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
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Joel McCrae, part of a community living on riverboats in the Mississippi River, marries "lander" Barbara Stanwyck. After the wedding he knocks another outsider overboard when he gets too fresh kissing the bride. Thinking him dead, he goes on the run to New Orleans. Stanwyck follows, and ends up working as a dishwasher in a nightclub. They have a couple of brief encounters but don't make up until locked up alone together in a room by her father-in-law. Spiced up by a couple of good songs, but populated by incredibly dumb southern stereotypes straight out of Hollywood.