A party girl gets shipped to the wilderness and learns that nature doesn't care about your trust fund.
Claire Endicott throws a wild party and her father walks in to find her flirting with the very married Milt Bisnet. In an attempt to straighten her out, Endicott sends Claire to the Canadian northwoods, where his field engineer, Grimshaw, is working. While fishing, Claire is swept over the rapids and Grimshaw tries to rescue her. Both of them wind up in a remote gorge, and Grimshaw goes about building a hut as a shelter.
Direction
Fleming's early mastery of outdoor spectacle
Acting
Shearer's pre-MGM star power emergence
Director
Victor Fleming
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was peak 'outdoor drama' era—studios built fake wildernesses in California while audiences craved authenticity.
Shearer was fighting MGM typecasting as 'nice girls' here; this role helped her pivot to the sophisticated dramas that won her Oscar.
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