Three Godfathers

1936
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1h 21m

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Irene Hervey, Jean Kircher, and Chester Morris in Three Godfathers (1936)

Three fugitives risk their lives to bring a newborn baby out of the desert to safety.Three fugitives risk their lives to bring a newborn baby out of the desert to safety.Three fugitives risk their lives to bring a newborn baby out of the desert to safety.

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7.3/10

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Trivia
When the godfathers are dying of thirst, Walter Brennan asks Doc about a person in the bible who brought water out of a rock. Doc replies that that was Moses. The same exchange is made in another Walter Brennan classic, Northwest Passage. Only there the men are dying of hunger and the actor asking the question is Spencer Tracey. Answering is Robert Young. Brennan only looks on.

Goofs
(at about 45 mins) When Doc arrives to the place where the baby's mother is buried, there is a shadow covering only a small area where the rock pile and cross are. In the very next edit, the site is in total sunlight, with nothing nearby that could have cast such a shadow, too small and well-defined to have been cast by a cloud.

Quotes
Robert 'Bob' Sangster: There ain't no Santy Claus!

Connections
Referenced in The Incredible Hulk: Two Godmothers (1981)

Soundtracks
She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain When She Comes
(uncredited)
Traditional
Played at the Christmas social

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7/10

The Code of the West

Not as well known as the 1948 John Ford version, this one does not spoon feed the issues to the viewer. Harsh, uncompromising and utterly devoid of false bonhomie, Boleslawski made this at almost the same time as the screwball classic, THEODORA GOES WILD.