A Ship Comes In

A plucky immigrant family arrives primed for patriotism from Central Europe, encounters mild nativism, ships their eldest off to WWI, gets falsely implicated in an Anarchist bomb plot; the usual. The makings of a melodrama might have been there, but this is a very stock production, and following Schildkraut's cheerily childish performance as the main focus ensures none of it hits very hard. Dresser garnered a nomination at the first Oscars, but it's a decidedly minor role for her, to be honest.