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Woman Against the World

Item number (ISN):

25404

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1937

Item number (ISN):

25404

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES INC.

Accession:

1977-0227

Media:

Film

Original title:

Woman Against the World

Part:

7 of 7

Production date:

1937

Release date:

1937-09

Production company:

Central Films Ltd.

Production credit:

director, David Selman; producer, Kenneth J. Bishop; scenario, Edgar Edwards; photography, Harry Forbes; William Beckway; sound, Herbert Eicke; editing, William Austin

Cast credit:

Ralph Forbes, Alice Moore, Edgar Edwards, Collette Lyons, Sylvia Welsh, Ethel Reese-Burns, George Hallet, James McGrath, Grant MacDonald, Fred C. Bass, Harry S. Hay, Enid Cole, Reginald Hincks, Vivian Combe, Violet Wilson, Michael Heppell, Mary Heppell, Arthur H. Kerr, Patrick Wormold, David McPhee, Robert Rideout

Country of production:

uk

Distributor name:

Columbia Pictures

Description:

A farm hand and the farmer=s daughter marry secretly. He moves back to the city finding work as a security guard. He is shot and killed leaving his pregnant wife to fend for herself. She stays with an aunt and works as a secretary. The aunt gives her child away and the girl accidentally kills her aunt when she will not reveal the whereabouts of the child. After a stint in prison she hires a crooked detective to look for the child. He finds the child but blackmails the adoptive parents while bleeding the girl white. To pay him she works at night in a clip joint. Eventually all is revealed by the detective=s callow assistant. She abducts the child then returns her. In court the judge agrees that the adoption was not legal so she is not guilty. The child however refuses to accept her as her mother and she agrees to leave her with the adoptive parents. <65mn 38s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' master print.~2. For more information see "Canadian Film Index 1913-1985", page 19.

Genre:

DRAMA
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Date modified:: 2024-07-04