Cupido Valentão

Shortly before the heart attack that ended his life and career, Wallace Beery played "Big Jack," an outlaw paired with Marjorie Main as "Flapjack Kate," living in the woods as head of a gang. Veteran tough guy Jack Lambert interrupts the hanging of a handsome young doctor, Richard Conte, to remove a bullet from Big Jack's leg. Hoping to forestall the doctor's impending departure, a pretty young woman is kidnapped to maintain his interest. Gene Fowler's screenplay was more tiresome and tepid than the usual vehicles for the highly unusual Beery: no cute children are employed to make him sympathetic, hence, a box office loss for MGM. Edward Arnold and Charles Dingle appear in support. If any actor ever seemed to have learned anything from Beery, it may have been Robert Newton.