I enjoyed the period nature of this movie, and there's nothing about it that bothered me..
EXCEPT that I found this movie labeled under sports and not "faith" . It truely could have been made without using the baseball scenes at all. "Townboy" goes to the rural mill, where town boys seldom tread due to some poorly explained "code." Ok, let's put him there because he needs a good job! He sparks with a mill workers girl and creates hard feeling. This could be contained inside the mill.
Baseball seems to be in this film only as a methaphor for sin, which is kind of a stretch. But it's needed in order to enfuse the Baptist moralizing which is for sure the point of this film. And that's a fine base for a movie.
Any plot device would have been as good. Not a bad film, but made for an ultra conservative audience to watch in between "Little House" episodes. Nostalgia for a simpler time is the message. The baseball is just a pasttime.
EXCEPT that I found this movie labeled under sports and not "faith" . It truely could have been made without using the baseball scenes at all. "Townboy" goes to the rural mill, where town boys seldom tread due to some poorly explained "code." Ok, let's put him there because he needs a good job! He sparks with a mill workers girl and creates hard feeling. This could be contained inside the mill.
Baseball seems to be in this film only as a methaphor for sin, which is kind of a stretch. But it's needed in order to enfuse the Baptist moralizing which is for sure the point of this film. And that's a fine base for a movie.
Any plot device would have been as good. Not a bad film, but made for an ultra conservative audience to watch in between "Little House" episodes. Nostalgia for a simpler time is the message. The baseball is just a pasttime.
