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Summary:
In the logging town of Bangor, Maine during the 1820's, a young woman who has lived with an abusive drunkard father decides that men are to be used for her benefit. She falls under the watchful eye of an older lumber magnate and she accepts his marriage proposal. Using his money to make a better life for herself, the young woman meets her husband's college age son and tells him she would marry him if his father was out of the picture. Unbeknownst to the son, the woman has already set her eyes on another man, who is engaged to her best friend.
Notes:
Age group: NR.
Downloadable video file.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: OverDrive Media Console (file size: 518804KB).
Title from title screen (viewed on June 14, 2007).
Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, Hillary Brooke, Rhys Williams.
Director of photography, Lucien Andriot ; supervising film editor, James E. Newcom ; music, Carmen Dragon.
Based on the novel by Ben Ames Williams.
Originally issued as a motion picture in 1946.
Also available as VHS.
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