Academy Awards, USA 1934
| Nominee Oscar | Best Picture |
MGM
Directed by Sidney Franklin
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
It's double roles for both Norma Shearer and Fredric March. In a flashback, we learn the fate of two young lovers on their wedding day. Back in the present, March is his older, single self who reluctantly agrees to adopt a young orphan girl. Norma also plays the girl, who grows up to have an uncanny resemblance to his long lost wife. But there are more coincidences. She falls in love with none other than the son of the man who killed March's wife! As a result, March refuses to bless their marriage. He goes off to war and returns severely disabled, convincing March that he might not be such a bad guy after all. If you can suspend belief long enough to buy into all of that, it is not bad entertainment. The scene between March and Shearer when he tries to hide his injury is a real stunner.
Directed by Sidney Franklin
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
It's double roles for both Norma Shearer and Fredric March. In a flashback, we learn the fate of two young lovers on their wedding day. Back in the present, March is his older, single self who reluctantly agrees to adopt a young orphan girl. Norma also plays the girl, who grows up to have an uncanny resemblance to his long lost wife. But there are more coincidences. She falls in love with none other than the son of the man who killed March's wife! As a result, March refuses to bless their marriage. He goes off to war and returns severely disabled, convincing March that he might not be such a bad guy after all. If you can suspend belief long enough to buy into all of that, it is not bad entertainment. The scene between March and Shearer when he tries to hide his injury is a real stunner.
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