Second viewing; first seen on February 28, 1993
A small steamboat captain is being nearly put out of business by the local magnate and his big steamboat. The poor captain's son, with whom his father had parted ways when he was a baby, returns to meet him. Soon after his arrival, the young lad is pleasantly surprised to encounter his sweetheart, whose father is none other than the abovementioned magnate.
This capitalist updating of Romeo and Juliet is a glorious defense of education as a means of prevailing and even coming to the rescue of precisely those who despise it. The film is also a powerful indictment of the deleterious effect of the monopoly of economic power on democratic life.
Rating: 90 (unchanged)
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