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Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for him Rankin forges a letter from the warden'...
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"The premise of this well-made melodrama is far-fetched: A newly-married man (Jack Holt) is sentenced to 20 years for manslaughter. Once in jail, he fakes his suicide in order to allow his pregnant wife (Lila Lee) to lead a life not bound to a prisoner. Some years after his release, he meets his daughter (Jean Arthur), who recognises him from a photograph her mother has kept, and complications ensue - mainly because his wife has meanwhile married another man, which exposes her to the charge of bigamy. Despite the complicated set-up, the story works. In fact, it works very well, thanks to the tw..."
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33-year old Jean Arthur (who wasn't telling her true age at the time) is ten years older than the character she plays, the 23-year old Sandy, and one year older than 32-year old Lila Lee, who plays her mother. She was born in June 1900 and Lee in December 1901.
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Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for him Rankin forges a letter from the warden'...