Word: rivertown
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British-born Director Whale was completely successful in imparting U. S. period atmosphere to the whirling rivertown parade with which Show Boat opens, to the turn-of-the-century sequence with which it might well have ended. What follows is an outline for some other Irene Dunne picture...
Larry and Ruth are happy dwellers in Rivertown. They live over their store and are more ambitious than most of their neighbors. They hope some day to be somebodies, to send their fair-haired little daughter and their yet unborn son to college. Just as it seems that the world could not possibly be a better place, Mendel's Law steps up and destroys the lives of Larry and Ruth. Their little son is born black as a boogie...
...mouth of an advocatus diaboli: Luke Faber, conservative New Englander. manufacturer and gentleman-driver of racing cars. He is rich, socially correct. has a mistress and a fiancee, is popular with his fellow-townsmen and a power in the local American Legion. When the Reds make trouble in Rivertown factories. Faber helps organize a raid on their headquarters. Then comes the annual automobile race, "the Rivertown classic." Faber, the local favorite, is doing well, when he blows a front tire, hits the rail and crashes...
When he comes to himself he is in ancient Rome, having just cracked up in a chariot race. Except that he finds himself talking Latin, that his name is Lucius instead of Luke, everything is exactly the same. The Fabers have the same position in Rome as in Rivertown, the same conservative point of view, the same worries and troubles with labor agitators. As in real life, Lucius finds the issue confused for him by falling in love with Marcia a rabid Red. When she is killed in his arms the shock brings him back to Rivertown again...
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