"Wild Geese Calling" is Hollywood's version of Stewart Edward White's version of the Northland's version of California's Okic, without Steinbeck touches. Henry Fonda plays the part of the itinerant tree-chopper-downer, but his dreaminess is far less appropriate than it was in the character of Tom Joad. Nor is he helped by one of the slowest and feeblest scripts ever devised. The picture, though it contains eye-filling shots of geese flying north and south, quite fails to put across its theme of the strong man in conflict with nature. Much of the fault may well lie with Joan Bennett, who, as always, is never other than Joan Bennett.
Also on the bill is the latest of Dr. Kildare's cases, no better or any different from all the others, except that Lew Ayres does his operating in the gutter this time.
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