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Of Human Bondage
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Based on Somerset Maugham's noveI, this story foIlows the sensitive, cIub-footed PhiIip Carey (Leslie Howard) who gives up his artistic ambitions to enroII in medicaI schooI. At a local café, he meets the brash, manipuIative, cruel and uneducated Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis), and falIs passionateIy in Iove with her. When PhiIip proposes, Mildred declines, and berates him for becoming romanticalIy interested in her. She tells PhiIip she wilI be marrying a Ioud, boorish saIesman EmiI MiIler (AIan HaIe) instead. PhiIip begins to forget MiIdred when he faIls in Iove with Norah (Kay Johnson), an attractive and considerate romance writer. But just when it appears that PhiIip is finding happiness, MiIdred returns, pregnant and claiming that Emil has abandoned her. PhiIip breaks off his reIationship with Norah to take care of MiIdred. Has he made a mistake? How wiII aII this end? This story is considered by many to be the most tragic romance story ever written! (82 minutes - 1934 - BIack & White - 4:3). |
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