"Recently recovered and restored, this third panel in the Borzage-Janet Gaynor-Charles Farrell triptych is an unblushing tribute to the miracles that love can bring." - Dan Callahan

The extent to which I was emotionally invested in this film (by the end pretty much every line and every decision a character made had me gripped, and my emotions were running haywire) is on it's own enough to make it a favourite of mine. That it's also stunningly beautiful (with some great usage of light and shadow, and some of the sets seeming like out of a fairytale) just adds to this film's brilliance. And that ending is sublime.

Adorable.

Drippingly romantic and photographed like a dreamscape, this late silent by Frank Borzage makes great use of repeated shots (one a vantage point from the edge of a forest looking onto a cottage, and another of a room, almost at tatami mat level, of a man struggling to walk), and builds nicely to its well-earned climax.