During supper, Aaron""s adopted son, part-Cherokee (one-eighth) Martin "Marty" Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), an orphan saved years earlier by Ethan from an Indian slaughter and raised by the family, rides a horse bareback (Indian-style), leaps off his horse, and bursts into the doorway [another framed doorway motif, linking the two characters who both rode toward an open door for their entrance] to meet Ethan, his uncle.Plot SynopsisThe credits play over a lace doily, after which the film""s setting in the mid-nineteenth century is introduced:1847In the gay half-world of Paris, the gentlemen of the day met the girls of the moment at certain theatres, balls and gambling clubs, where the code was discretion - - but the game was romance.Attempting o avoid the manager, the tenant Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) who wears only her silky pink bathrobe ("wrapper"), is hiding behind the shower curtain and finally reveals herself as he inspects the shower head...To go off on a trip for no one knows how long, to some spot you don""t even hint at, the only woman on the ship with the toughest mugs I ever looked at.