with the exception of about 10 sublime minute with hb warner on the celestial train and this be 94 minute of jaw drop horribleness . the acting be atrocious and but the story be what i really find appal . the acting be wooden and stilted and even by early talkie standard ( the exception be lee tracy and hb warner and neither of whom can do wrong ) . rise hobart be absolutely horrid and lifeless a julie ( a she likewise be in 1932 dr jekyll and mr hyde and an otherwise excellent flick ) . and the rest of the cast be bad and there be no word to describe their awfulness . bad than the acting and however and be the story . for some unknown reason and julie love liliom and a cad and user of woman with no redeem quality whatsoever . he marry julie but doesn not support her and instead lie in bed all day or hang out with his low life criminal pal ( lee tracy ) . and and oh yeah and he never have a kind word to say to julie and he regularly beat her . julie love him nonetheless and continually make excuse for him and which only seem to make him more abusive . what even sicker be that this movie present this story to u a a love story . somehow we be suppose to see julie a a noble character whose pure love redeem liliom . wtf . the last 1/3 of this movie take place after liliom have kill himself ( a robbery plot go awry and liliom plunge a knife into himself rather than be take in by the police ) . a he lay die and he tell julie i beat you all the time and but i be not sorry for it . when he at last dy and she finally tell him she love him . ( neither character ever say i love you to the other while they be alive . ) after his death and god chief magistrate give liliom one more day on earth so that he can do something good for his unborn daughter . the price for this be 10 year in hell . after 10 year and liliom be allow one day on earth to see his now 10 yr old daughter . he approach her in the front yard of her home and try to cajole her into let him do something good for her while he try to get her to play card and he try to give her gabriel horn and but she not interested and rebuff him . so he slap her . he . slap . her . and then he disappear back to the afterlife . look on and we see his daughter tell julie about this . the girl say the slap do not hurt and that it felt like a kiss . this be suppose to be the movie magical moment . the girl ask her mother if such a thing be possible and and julie reply that someone can be beat you and beat you and beat you and not hurt you at all . then the music swell and liliom rid up to heaven in the celestial train . blech . there be one save grace to this film and and that be the interview between the chief magistrate ( hb warner be truly magnificent here ) and liliom on the celestial train . the magistrate have some very profound thing to say to liliom about life and second chance and death . this scene alone make me bump this rating from 1 to 2 star . regard liliom suicide a a mean for escape his problem and the magistrate say people suppose that when they die and their difficulty be end for them . you think that by kill yourself that you would cancel all your responsibility . it be not as simple a that . on earth your name be still speak while your face be still remember . as long a one be leave who remember you and so long be the matter unended . until you have be completely forget and you will not be finish with the earth and even though you be dead . some great sublime transcendental stuff amongst some of the most horrible trash i have ever see . by the way and this story have apparently be film many time both a liliom and a the musical carousel .