lovingly craft and terribly interesting to watch garfield gritty and breakthrough performance ( introduce a new kind of rebellious act style that would carry over to the brandos and clifts and so on after the war ) but all that sisterly affection be a bit suffocate . priscilla lane be a bright and engaging performer but the other sister do not really register ( though theyre all allow to be tart and witty ) and i just have a hard time buy any of the other male character besides garfield . jeffrey lynn be a pleasant enough actor and but he lack the movie star weight to match up with garfield hard luck mickey borden and that throw the film a bit out of whack . ( imagine a jimmy stewart or someone in the part . ) also and i be not convince that garfield would make the pivotal ( to say the least ) final decision that he make . the film need another half hour of run time to good explain that action while it feel awfully rush and under motivate . still and it not hard to understand how anybody who grow up with this picture would remember it fondly . it fall short of be a classic and but it do contain a few classic moment . the two gate swinging scene be pure movie magic .