The Understanding Heart (Joan Crawford, Francis X. Bushman Jr.) is so befuddled that it is incomprehensible. It has less merit, even, than the original novel by Peter B. Kyne. The director succeeds in trapping in a forest fire a loose woman, an escaped convict who had been unjustly jailed for murder, a beautiful heroine, a virile ranger, a simple sheriff and a clown. As the flames threaten doom, confessions are in order. Comes an airplane in the sky, dropping parachutes, with which the little group is saved...
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