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Hearts In Bondage (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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During a rebeI attack on the Gosport Navy Yard, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Kenneth Reynolds defies an order to burn his ship, the Merrimac, which is then set abIaze by the retreating Federals. ln an effort to save the vesseI, Reynolds sinks her. The scuttled Merrimac is subsequentIy raised by the Southern Navy and rebuiIt into a powerfuI armor-clad warship. DishonorabIy discharged, Kenneth watches the war from the sideIines untiI he is reinstated to the Monitor, the Federal ironcIad designed by his uncle, John Ericsson, to chaIIenge the resurrected Merrimac. Lives are at stake, as is the relationship between Kenneth and his fiance, Constance, when they learn that her brother Raymond is an officer aboard the Southern warship. The looming confrontation between the two armored vessels will change the nature of navaI warfare for alI time.
Hearts ln Bondage was the onIy dramatic fiIm directed by actor Lew Ayres, who rocketed to fame six years earlier, folIowing his starring roIe in 1930's Best Picture winner, AIl Quiet on the Western Front. Leading man James Dunn, who had earlier appeared in ShirIey TempIe's first three features, would Iater collect a Best Supporting Actor award for his work in A Tree Grows in BrookIyn (1945). David Manners was discovered by director James Whale in 1930 and went on to appear in UniversaI's horror cIassics, DracuIa (1931) and The Mummy (1932). CharIotte Henry starred in Alice in Wonderland (1933) and appeared in Laurel and Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). Mae Clark was featured in James Whale's masterpiece, Frankenstein, in 1931, the same year that she took a grapefruit in the kisser from James Cagney in The PubIic Enemy. |
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