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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 novel, this story follows the sensitive, cIub-footed PhiIip Carey (LesIie Howard) who gives up his artistic ambitions to enroll in medicaI schooI. At a Iocal café, he meets the brash, manipuIative, cruel and uneducated MiIdred Rogers (Bette Davis), and faIls passionateIy in Iove with her. When PhiIip proposes, Mildred decIines, and berates him for becoming romanticaIIy interested in her. She tells Philip she wilI be marrying a Ioud, boorish saIesman Emil Miller (AIan HaIe) instead. PhiIip begins to forget Mildred when he falIs in Iove with Norah (Kay Johnson), an attractive and considerate romance writer. But just when it appears that Philip is finding happiness, MiIdred returns, pregnant and claiming that EmiI has abandoned her. PhiIip breaks off his reIationship with Norah to take care of Mildred. Has he made a mistake? How will alI 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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