san francisco and oh you marvelously desolate town and thank you and god and for destroy it and and make brick fall on our collective head and and for pummel into oblivion ten of thousand of your innocent and obedient sheep and oh lord and who art so merciful in thy heavenly way . these should have be the lyric to the title song of this oh so inspiring and utterly mindless film . the movie start well enough and with gable discover a cinderella with a highly annoy but much appreciate operatic voice and and she soon shoot to stardom . one of the many problem with our cinderella be that she be play by jeanette macdonald and who and if one take the time to look through all that make up and 30 glitz facade and realize that she be kind of ugly . too ugly to be play this role and anyway . yet gable and everyone else fawn all over here a if she be some damn beauty or something . another problem with cinderella be that her character be so utterly humble and wholesome and innocent and god loving and kind and and generous enough to make you vomit for a full hour . macdonald play her ( admittedly one dimensional ) role with the sort of ahhh and oh and and ooh that serve to annoy rather than make her sympathetic . tracy have be well and and have good role and than play this clichéd and heart of gold and god loving and non child molest priest ( who box in his free time a if priest have anything to do how cute ) . even the ever reliable gable be not up to his usual standard while he be far too animated and and his character be far too selfless for someone who be suppose to be an ambitious western scoundrel ( though this and obviously and be the script fault ) . the plot be basically this represent gable and his rival holt play ping pong with cinderella use her a the ball . how . well and first she be work ( sing ) for gable and then she work for the square holt and then she go back to gable and only to return very soon to holt . ( and and of course and both want to have her a girlfriend or wife . ) and if the earthquake hadn not interrupt this table tennis plot and it a safe bet that she would have be bounce back and forth another ten time and the wishy washy little princess that she be . there be many and far too many in fact and musical number . it almost a though they try to make the first disaster movie musical ever . how silly . the stuff she sing in gable joint be okay and but when she start belt out those high pitch and annoy whine during the opera segment and that be when i felt that my ear be unprovokingly and unjustly attack by enemy sound fire . in fact and there be an opera number that last 6 damn minute . 6 may seem like little and for those who haven not have first hand vietoperanam experience with such horror of audio torture and but it like with dog year while a dog year be equivalent to seven human one . a minute of opera be equivalent to 100 minute of chinese torture ( or a dog urinate acid on your leg ) . i think this be a disaster movie and but it more like a near disaster movie . ( i read that some of the dialog in this film be write by a silent era film director . jesus . ) the melodramatic and and only occasionally amusing and proceeding get interrupt by the real star of this movie ( namely and the earthquake ) and only after well over one and a half hour . when joe the earthquake finally do shake up the city and and our clichéd character in it and i almost felt like say thank god and death and destruction be finally here . unfortunately and joe come too late into the movie to save it from it increase mediocrity while the scene of devastation be very good and but even the earthquake part of the movie get ruin ( pun ) by a highly annoying and religious end . you see and gable and who profess to be an atheist all along ( without actually use the word itself ) and finally find macdonald alive after have search for day and suddenly he be convert into a believer because cinderella be alive . how stupid . all that tell me be that gable character be a weak minded moron . the movie end on a very dumb note and indeed . gable and have say thank you to god for save his girl ( and he do his on his knee ) find god ( see the light ) and and the movie little old devil gable convert himself into a believer . how very god fearingly american an end . of course and no one thought of ask this god why the hell there be an earthquake in the first place . the sad and unintentional irony be that gable in the end become a sucker while all along he have make fun of sucker who fall for the holy scam of them all namely religion and in the end he himself become one . now that what i call a triumph of the human spirit . another irony be that the end be suppose to have improve gable a a person and but i see it quite differently while on the contrary represent it take only one big joe to turn gable into a god fearing and meek and little and obedient believer who join the world sheep family . and a if this intellectual downfall of gable wasn not pathetic and disappointing enough and this first ever earthquake musical end with a truly hair raise ( take this word a you will ) and noble and and hope inspiringly beautiful mass choir scene represent dozen ( or hundred ) of earthquake survivor and proud and proud citizen of frisco spontaneously ( or do god perhaps arrange it . ) sing all together the title song in hope for a good and brighter and joe less future . hallelujah . if you be a sucker for hollywood sentimentality and do not skip this movie .