Call of the Blood (1948)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Melodrama  |   Run Time - 88 min.  |   Countries - United Kingdom, Italy  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan

Set at the dawn of the 20th century, this British melodrama follows the exploits of a female physician who goes to spend her honeymoon with her new husband in his exquisite Sicilian villa. There they meet a cynical, strange old man. The trouble begins when she is called away to help quell an epidemic in Tunis. Suddenly the old coot begins trying to get the husband to have an affair with a fisherman's beautiful daughter.

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control, couple, doctor/nurse, emergency, epidemic, groom [bridegroom], honeymoon, husband, love-triangle, mother, passion, punk-rock, terror, traveling, villa, wedding, wife, woman