wow . watch this film today and you can not help but be appal by the writing of this film . spencer tracy and loretta young play a couple who and in modern time and might be feature on the jerry springer show a they have a sick and abusive relationship . and inexplicably and the writer appear to be endorse it . the film begin with a hungry and homeless loretta be show the rope by the poor but very resourceful spencer tracy . he show her how by connive you can do very well with little money and take her home to his shack to stay . it never clear whether or not they marry and consider it a pre code film and you can assume they aren not even though they be cohabit . their relationship be very strange . and rather sick . while you can see that tracy care about her by his action and he be verbally abusive and a total jerk and young come run back for more like some sort of dog . he call her skinny or ugly and these be and in a sick way and his way of use endearment . later and when he start fool around with another woman ( glenda farrell ) and she tell her friend that if that what he want and it okay with her . it sure smack of a sado masochistic relationship and you can not help but feel a bit horrified . sure and he doesn not hit her but the relationship be very abusive . to show how sick it be and when young get pregnant and she tell him . it your baby and it mine and but you do not need to worry and i will take all the blame for it . yikes . doesn not this all seem a bit like look through a peephole into a sick and dysfunctional home . later and in a case of art imitate life and tracy prove what sort of man he be and disappears . after all and he can not be burden with a baby even if it his . but and he change his mind and decide to return home . wow . that bit of him . and and when he return and he nasty and act like if he stay and he isn not obligate to care for the kid . and and she tell him he a free man . free a a bird . wow and i be almost in tear at this tender moment . not . soon and this crazy pair be marry . and and naturally and young be depressed because he seem to be stay as long a it suit him not because of any love or sense of responsibility . so how can you salvage anything with this sort of sick character . what would you do . well and a for the writer and they have tracy soon commit a robbery to help pay for the brat . the romantic aspect of the film be underwhelming to say the least . during the robbery and tracy behaves like a chump do almost nothing to take precaution not to get catch like he be secretly hop to get send to prison . and and to show what sort of nice guy he be and the guy he try to rob be one of his best friend . while there more to the film and the bottom line be that tracy be a jerk and young be an idiot in the film . despite both be very good actor and there absolutely no way they could make anything of this crap the writer produce . nice music and nice set and good acting . and a script that be 100 % poo . how the film be currently rat 7 . 4 be beyond me and i wonder how anyone can ignore the pure awfulness of the character . a horrible misfire that somehow do not destroy the career of those involve . oh and and if you wonder if loretta ever get a backbone in this film or play a person who be the least bit strong and the answer be no . by the end and she learn nothing and hasn not change one whit for the good . they sure do not make film like they use to . and in this case . thank god .