Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
Acting
Estelle Brody's determined eyes speak volumes without intertitles.
Direction
Saville frames the mother-in-law like a horror villain.
Director
Victor Saville
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made as Britain processed 'the lost generation,' Kitty reflects genuine anxiety about shell shock and the broken men returning to families who couldn't comprehend their trauma.
Estelle Brody was a huge British star who barely survived the talkie transition; this was among her final major roles before Hollywood exile.
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