An ex-convict gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. When he meets Sleeper, his life takes a change for the better, but along with her comes the boisterous little Collins, for whom she is a governess.
Acting
Otto Kruger's smoldering ex-con with secrets in his eyes.
Production
Barely surviving print rescued from Russian archives—film history itself.
Director
Arthur Lubin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-Code films like this sneaked through mature themes—adultery, justified violence—before 1934 enforcement made such moral complexity impossible.
This film was considered lost for decades until a print surfaced in Russia's Gosfilmofond archive; its survival is pure archival luck.
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