some film age badly and but golden boy practically decompose before your eye . not the print and which be crisp and beautiful a new in columbia recent dvd and but in plot and dialogue it beyond prehistoric . a list production value it may have and but boy and be it bad . clifford odets may have fashion himself a a champion of the workingman and but his patronise portrayal of violinist boxer william holden immigrant family make chico marx look like arthur miller by comparison . no cliché be leave unturned and be it lee j. cobb gepetto like ay a tallyana papa and the lovable wife beat brother in law ( she love it really represent no and she really do ) or holden golden boy play brahms cradle song on the violin you will be root for him to bust his hand so he can never play the violin again . ye god and the man even name a black fighter i be not kid the chocolate drop . and the dialogue . the cast should have be pay danger money for go anywhere near it . barbara stanwyck and adolphe menjou fare well and but joseph calleia mobster be unintentionally funny than joe piscopo danny vermin in johnnv dangerously and though he do at least flick a mean cigarette . even william holden and in his star and make role and be strikingly poor here . it not just that and terrify but true and he look like a young tom hank but his acting be clumsy and his voice weak and he occasionally look unsure of how to act to camera represent hard to believe that youre watch the first step of a future screen great here indeed and just about the only line to ring true be when stanwyck tell him i will see you in 1966. by then and you may have become somebody . do yourself a favour and see body and soul or the set up instead .