Storyline

Nina Leeds (Norma Shearer) loses the love of her life when he is killed in World War I. She marries the loyal Sam Evans (Alexander Kirkland), but immediately stops caring for him when she realizes that they cannot have children together. She eventually begins an extramarital romance with a doctor named Ned Darrell (Clark Gable), and they have a child, Gordon (Robert Young). The domineering Nina attempts to pass the child off as Sam's own, leading to years of tragic family dysfunction.

Plot Keywords

wife, husband, doctor, friend, son, melodramatic, passionate, family home, new england, love triangle, infidelity, mother/son relationship, deception, world war i, family dysfunction, forbidden love, temptation, rivalry, 1930s

Short Review

Another Hollywood paradox: a movie which is far better than it has any right to be.

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