On the day that Margaret Fairfield is to re-marry, her ex-husband Hillary, shell-shocked during World War One, escapes from and insane asylum and returns to his home.
"On the day that Margaret Fairfield is to re-marry, her ex-husband Hillary, shell-shocked during World War One, escapes from and insane asylum and returns to his home."@en
"A middle-aged man, released from a mental institution, comes home and meets his strong-willed daughter."@en
"Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc., Troy, Missouri, U.S.A. Feature film set in an English country house in the late 1920s, in which the young Katherine Hepburn's father escapes from a private asylum and returns home the day before his wife is due to get a divorce on the grounds of her husband's prolonged mental unfitness. The aftermath of shell-shock, 'hereditary mental taint' and the eugenic regulation of marriage and procreation all figure prominently in this melodrama, which was Katherine Hepburn's screen debut."
"A witty romantic comedy about the disruption caused when a young woman's father returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum."@en
"Hillary Fairfield (Barrymore), who was shell-shocked during World War I, escapes from a mental asylum on the very day that his ex-wife is to remarry. When he returns home, he is jolted by a meeting with his daughter Sydney (Hepburn), who comes to realize she may have inherited the streak of insanity from her father."
"Hillary Fairfield (Barrymore), who was shell-shocked during World War I, escapes from a mental asylum on the very day that his ex-wife is to remarry. When he returns home, he is jolted by a meeting with his daughter Sydney (Hepburn), who comes to realize she may have inherited the streak of insanity from her father."@en
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