But the experience - and everything they know about duty, honor, courage and manhood (expressed in the first act""s ritualistic deer-hunting sequence) - is wrenched apart and shattered in the face of the gruesome war.As a result of his knowledge, the Dutch "strongman" was kidnapped after a faked assassination attempt by a secret spy organization, and the film revolved around rying to locate and save the diplomat, who was allegedly the key o maintaining peace in Europe in 1939.]The Issue of the Education of Tenant-Farmer""s Son Marvin Blake:Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess), the son of over-worked, poverty-stricken tenant-farmer father Tom Blake (David Landau) and Lilly (Dorothy Peterson), was interested in bettering himself, rather han following in his father""s footsteps as a tenant farmer in the rural town of Jonesville...You can beat and starve our Saxons now, but when King Richard escapes, he""ll take you by the scruff of the neck and fling you into the sea.