by Paul Brenner
synopsis
Sam Wood directed this fourth version of the Alexandre Bisson weeper, buffed to a high gloss by shimmering M.G.M. production values. Gladys George plays Jacqueline Fleuriot this time around, the wife of a diplomat who has an affair and is compelled to leave her husband and son. After abandoning her family, she sinks into a sea of debauchery, becoming involved in prostitution, blackmail, and eventually murder. After the murder, her son Raymond (John Beal), now a grown man and a famous lawyer, is called upon to defend her. Unaware that the woman he is defending is his long lost mother, Jacqueline tries to hide her past from her successful son.
characteristics
- Wives
- Wife
- Diplomacy
- Diplomat
- Mothers And Sons
- Murder
- Son
- Whore
- Streetwalker
- Infidelity
- Prostitute/prostitution
- Extramarital-affair
- Blackmail
- A Good Cry
- Adultery
