Madame Guillotine (1931)
Directed by Reginald Fogwell
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
This romance takes place during the French Revolution. The lovers are an aristocratic woman and a populist lawyer. At first she rejects him, but then marries him at the onset of the uprising. When her husband volunteers to be guillotined in her stead, the woman reveals her social standing and turns herself in. In the end, both are spared by a phony pardon.
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forbidden-love, guillotine