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Johnny Belinda (Warner) is an odd, rather likable blend of believable back-country dramatics and old-fashioned melodramatics. It is set on Cape Breton Island, at the eastward tip of Nova Scotia. Its chief characters are a deaf-mute slavey named Belinda (Jane Wyman) and a kind-hearted young doctor (Lew Ayres...
...dawning in Cape Breton Island's long-troubled coalfields. Most of the old bitterness between management and labor was gone, and they were working together to increase production. (Only two years ago, a Royal Commission had reported: "The men ... so distrusted the present management that they could see no hope for ... cooperation between men and management in improving the efficiency of production...
Fifty miles from Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island and twice as far from Newfoundland, the islands have passed from the French to Newfoundland to Quebeo. They were one of the last outposts of feudalism in the western world: George III gave them to Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin for services to the Crown, and for a century they paid tribute to Coffin's heirs...
...arena for this performance, an aged novel has been unearthed from the shelves of some bankrupt circulating library, its cover has been dusted, and its plot has been transmitted to celluloid. The utterly fantastic doings somehow involve the wife of a Breton fisherman (Garson), who takes up with a nasty friend of her supposedly dead husband. But of course, just as she is about to marry the friend, (after four reels of indecision), the husband shows up and the two men have the customary brawl on the customary cliff-top. You have but one guess who it is that falls...
...party of fishermen had camped in the Red River country near Cape Breton Highlands National Park. When they moved out, they committed the worst crime in the woodsman's book: they failed to put out their fire. From its embers sprang a blaze that soon fired the summer-dry brush nearby. Volunteers came running and quickly had the burning brush under control-or so they thought until a rising wind undid their work. Soon a white mushroom of smoke hung over Cape Breton's heartland...