Alright, I'm prejudiced here. I have always adored Frank Morgan, and here we get to see him as a mature romantic lead, rather than as a supporting actor.
To be honest, if I had been Barbara Stanwyck, I might have refused this role. There's no way she can come across as anything more than a selfish ingrate. She does it fairly well.
Stanwyck plays a young woman who has a high-life past who is injured and saved from a fall by an older man (Morgan). Morgan falls in love with Stanwyck and convinces her to marry him, even in a sexless marriage. All goes well, and there's even another man (Lyle Talbot) who you think she's going to have an affair with...but doesn't; she's good. Then another man comes along (Ricardo Cortez, who sweeps her off her feet. She tells Morgan she's leaving him, and the following day he has a heart attack. She insists on staying with him until he recovers, although he doesn't want her to.
Will he live? Will they live happier ever after? This is a good film, though short at just about an hour. Nicely staged.
To be honest, if I had been Barbara Stanwyck, I might have refused this role. There's no way she can come across as anything more than a selfish ingrate. She does it fairly well.
Stanwyck plays a young woman who has a high-life past who is injured and saved from a fall by an older man (Morgan). Morgan falls in love with Stanwyck and convinces her to marry him, even in a sexless marriage. All goes well, and there's even another man (Lyle Talbot) who you think she's going to have an affair with...but doesn't; she's good. Then another man comes along (Ricardo Cortez, who sweeps her off her feet. She tells Morgan she's leaving him, and the following day he has a heart attack. She insists on staying with him until he recovers, although he doesn't want her to.
Will he live? Will they live happier ever after? This is a good film, though short at just about an hour. Nicely staged.