Top cast:Marion Leonard,Dell Henderson,Gladys Egan
Director:Edmund Lawrence
Genre:Fantasy
Region:Algeria
Year:2002
Storyline:The far-fetched plot of the film, involving a romantic riangle and its complications between a wrongly-accused worker, a school-teacher, and a law professor, was honored with seven Academy Award nominations, but ended up Oscar-less: Best Picture (it lost o William Wyler""sMrs.Mr.Freeze - formerly Dr.Victor Fries, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist, had cryogenetically frozen his wife Nora after she had contracted a rare disease (Macgregor""s Syndrome), with plans to awaken her when he found a cure...In another line, he confirms his incorrigible bachelorhood and his impatience and distaste for creatures of the female sex: "Let a woman in your life and you""re plunging in a knife.A pulled-back camera view shows Tara and a colorful, flaming sunset sky.Max Steiner""s musical score "Tara""s Theme" swells magnificently.Ellen Robillard O""Hara (Barbara O""Neil) comes home after acting as a mid-wife, returning from the bedside of her overseer""s "poor white trash" mistress Emmy Slattery (Isabel Jewell), who has just given birth to a baby that "mercifully" died...huh?Mac: (after a long hesitation) It""s...it""s...Miss Sieppe!Marcus: (furiously) You mean...that you, too - -Mac: (blurting out and confessing) She""s been the first girl I""ve ever known.I couldn""t help myself!...-- I was so close to her -- an"" smelled her hair -- an"" felt her breath! Oh!...you don""t know! (Marcus rises, dumfounded and anguished.With his hands in his pockets, he walks toward the window, watches the people pass by outside on he boardwalk, and notices the waves in the distance.