Pack Up Your Troubles : Glass Spider Publishing : 9781736776254 : 1736776258 : 17 Aug 2021 : The year 1932 was a critical point in American history. The Great Depression was in full swing, and the clock was running down on the final year of a presidential administration that had long since exhausted its supply of ineffectual remedies to the financial crisis that was even now slouching its way toward absolute rock bottom. Meanwhile, the country's mood had reached its emotional and psychological nadir. With no coherent alternative offering hope of redemption, there existed the palpable anxiety that the entire social fabric of the nation could unravel. And the Hollywood films of that year reflected that national nervousness and uncertainty in ways both direct and unexpected, expressing it with an aesthetic depth and conviction that was just beginning to blossom within the new medium of talking pictures. At this point in time, the American film industry, which had successfully come out