Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred McMurray plays a hotblooded political rebel from Virginia with a price on his head and a sword in his belt, who flees north to a romance with a Puritan daughter chaffing at her restrictions. Their secret love--complete with assignations in the woods and kisses in the dark--runs up against some difficulties. Through a mistake a Salem wife becomes jealous, McMurray is kidnapped by sailors which climaxes with the conviction of Miss Colbert herself. The executioner is placing the noose about her neck when Fred charges up on a horse and explains that it is all a mistake...
Merle Oberon, as daughter of the diplomat sent to pacify Ireland, tries to keep her love with Brian Aherne safe from war though he is the leader of the rebellion. The tragedy is intensified in that the very strength of their love is the cause of his shooting. The radicals in the rebelling forces believe that Aherne signs a peace treaty because of love, and they mark him for a traitor's death. Through the whole movie runs the note of inevitable tragedy ominous events follow each other rapidly--, and the sympathy of the audience is high pitched...
Paired with Whalen in the sports department is Rochelle Hudson, the daughter of a former fistic champion, who boasts a mean right book--undoubtedly hereditary. This she uses to advantage against her boss, against "the other woman", and in sobering drunks. Yet with it all she retains much of her ingenuous charm and would appear to be a welcome addition to the sports department of any newspaper--this one anyway...
...When a village girl is caught in the act of love, her mother spends everything they have on a feast for the local big men, hoping that they will then commute her daughter's sentence from death to banishment. They do; the daughter goes off to starve while her penniless mother stays home...
THIS LIFE I'VE LOVED-Isobel Field- Longmans, Green ($3). The step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson recalls with a benevolent serenity unusual in artists' memoirs, her varied life in Nevada mining camps, San Francisco's art colony, Hawaiian King Kalakaua's court, in Samoa as amanuensis to Stevenson during his last days...