"That's My Man" is a surprisingly bad film given that it has a couple excellent actors in the leads, Don Ameche and Catherine McLeod. They try their best...but the material just isn't very good. In particular, Ameche's character really makes no sense at all.
When the story begins, Joe has quit his job and taken his money and bought a baby horse. Now to put this in perspective, he has no idea how to raise a horse and thinks that by loving it and treating it like a pet it will somehow be a great race horse. But in the meantime, he's wandering about the city with a horse...looking for a place to bed him for the night. He meets Ronnie (McLeod) and she inexplicably allows this total stranger to stay with her and bring along his horsey in her city apartment. What part of this makes any sense?!
After working as a stable boy for a couple years, the horse ends up being a big winner and he and Ronnie marry. Their marriage is rocky, however, as Joe is an irresponsible idiot (he did pretty much demonstrate this when the movie began). Instead of paying all his attention to his wife and stable, he misses a lot of things because he's out gambling. He generally wins...but he's often not home and it's only a matter of time until Ronnie's had enough.
The biggest problem, apart from Joe's character making little sense, is that you also have no reason to like Joe and root for him...and he's really a jerk. You can't help but think that Ronnie would just be better off alone than with this man-child.
So what he have is some nice acting and a script that often makes no sense. At best, it's a time-passer.
By the way, one review mentioned that there are multiple versions. The one I found on YouTube is complete and in crisp condition.
When the story begins, Joe has quit his job and taken his money and bought a baby horse. Now to put this in perspective, he has no idea how to raise a horse and thinks that by loving it and treating it like a pet it will somehow be a great race horse. But in the meantime, he's wandering about the city with a horse...looking for a place to bed him for the night. He meets Ronnie (McLeod) and she inexplicably allows this total stranger to stay with her and bring along his horsey in her city apartment. What part of this makes any sense?!
After working as a stable boy for a couple years, the horse ends up being a big winner and he and Ronnie marry. Their marriage is rocky, however, as Joe is an irresponsible idiot (he did pretty much demonstrate this when the movie began). Instead of paying all his attention to his wife and stable, he misses a lot of things because he's out gambling. He generally wins...but he's often not home and it's only a matter of time until Ronnie's had enough.
The biggest problem, apart from Joe's character making little sense, is that you also have no reason to like Joe and root for him...and he's really a jerk. You can't help but think that Ronnie would just be better off alone than with this man-child.
So what he have is some nice acting and a script that often makes no sense. At best, it's a time-passer.
By the way, one review mentioned that there are multiple versions. The one I found on YouTube is complete and in crisp condition.