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The daughter of rich socialites meets a French woman at a party. The woman reveals that the girl is adopted and that her birth mother was a murderer. Ashamed, the girl runs away from home and falls for the wrong man.

Hugh Marlowe's film debut.

This film is NOT lost. Alpha publishes a copy.

This film received its earliest documented telecasts in San Francisco Monday 21 April 1952 on KRON (Channel 4), in New York City Saturday 13 September 1952 on the Late, Late Show on WCBS (Channel 2) and in Los Angeles Sunday 14 September 1952 on KECA (Channel 7).

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    • Author: Uleran
    Madge is a lovely young lady who comes from a good family. And, she has a loving boyfriend who wants to marry her. However, her life crashes down around her when an evil jerk arrives to blackmail the family. It seems that Madge's parents are not her biological ones...and her birth mother is in prison for murder!!! This cellmate of her mother agrees to be quiet...for a price! But the damage has been done to Madge emotionally. Plus, when the story later makes the newspapers despite the bribe being paid, now her future mother-in-law indicates that she won't approve of the marriage. What is she to do...stay and fight for her man or give up and accept the proposal of a strange reporter?

    I liked this movie because the ending was so very sweet. Much of it was because of the wonderful supporting characters on the freighter. Freighter? Well, you'll just have to see the film yourself...and see that B-movies are not necessarily bad movies at all.
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    • Author: Zicelik
    Park Avenue deb Joan Marsh is almost ready to marry Hugh Marlowe in his screen debut, when she discovers she is adopted; her mother is in prison for life in France as accessory to murder of her father. She brilliantly reacts to this by spending a lot of time in Greenwich Village, where they make bad rum punch, and where she meets newspaperman Ray Walker, a sort of cut-rate Clark Gable from It HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. Since she figures she's not fit for decent society, she decides to marry him and go off to the South Seas with him. However, his jilted girlfriend, newspaperwoman Inez Courtney, is present to stir the plot whenever it looks like this will happen.

    Once you get past the idiotic premise, it's a decent and efficiently run Poverty Row effort directed by Phil Rosen. He had ascended from the ranks of cameramen to director and was making a name for himself when sound came along and knocked him back into the Bs and although his sound output was never distinguished, he worked steadily through the end of the 1940s, just shortly before his death. This was just one of nine movies he directed in 1936!
  • Cast overview, first billed only:
    Joan Marsh Joan Marsh - Madge Allison
    Ray Walker Ray Walker - Garry Dane
    Hugh Marlowe Hugh Marlowe - Richard G. Taylor, III (as John Marlowe)
    Ann Codee Ann Codee - Yvette Duval
    Inez Courtney Inez Courtney - Sally Patrick
    Holmes Herbert Holmes Herbert - Mr. Rodney Allison
    Olive Tell Olive Tell - Mrs. Jane Taylor
    Barbara Bedford Barbara Bedford - Brenda
    Doris Lloyd Doris Lloyd - Mrs. Madeleine Allison
    Robert Adair Robert Adair - Thorne, the Butler
    Dick Elliott Dick Elliott - Newspaper Editor
    Herbert Ashley Herbert Ashley - Police Captain
    Kathryn Sheldon Kathryn Sheldon - Ellen, the Maid
    Victor Wong Victor Wong - Wong
    George Cleveland George Cleveland - Bartender
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