by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Set in the early 1900s, Adventure in Baltimore is a romantic comedy about the woman's suffrage movement. Shirley Temple plays a student at an exclusive girl's school who "sees the light" and begins campaigning for women's rights. This doesn't sit well with her minister father (Robert Young) nor with Temple's boyfriend (John Agar, then married to Temple). Eventually, Temple's dad is won over to his daughter's point of view, and delivers an impassioned sermon on tolerance and individual rights for the edification of the hidebound townspeople. Like most of Shirley Temple's "grown up" films, Adventure in Baltimore was a disappointment at the box office.
characteristics
- Fighting The System
- Romance
- Romantic
- Rights
- School
- Missing-person
- Misfortune
- Speech
- Women's-issues
- Women's-Liberation
- Tolerance
- Teen
- Spirit
- Student
- Kidnap
