"....There are also two performances--Gig Young as the MC and Jane Fonda as the leading figure--that are beyond dispute the darkest voice of the thirties and its despair.... As for Jane Fonda, for all the enthusiasm for the way she has survived as a "pretty" woman of her age, you have to see her unflinching nihilism in this film to know what was survived.
"....There are many other fine supporting performances.... But all the good work amounts to a superb, fatalistic ensemble in which Young and Fonda are the tireless sources of inflection or disbelief."
David Thomson, Have You Seen...? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films, p. 876
(post originally published August 28, 2013)
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