Flesh and Blood (1951)
Directed by Anthony Kimmins
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly med student in a Glasgow slum. His fiancee also dies in childbirth. Her brother, who survives, begins raising her baby girl who grows up to have an affair with a lab assistant. Her "father" disapprove and threatens to destroy the wedding. She retaliates by poisoning him and then gets married. She bears a son. Unfortunately she has never recovered from the guilt of her earlier murder and ends up taking her own life. Later her son grows up to discover a vaccine for a fatal disease.
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achievement, brother, ceremony, childbirth, criminal, daughter, death, disapproval, disease, extramarital-affair, family, family-disapproval, fiancee, generation, generation-gap, laboratory-assistant, love, marriage, medical, medical-student, parent, past, poison, pregnancy, romance, slums, son, student, suicide, toddlers, vaccine, wedding
