WHAT BECOMES OF THE CHILDREN?-1936-Fred
(Glen Boles) and Marion (Joan Marsh) are close knit brother and
sister, the children of a railroad magnate John Worthington (Robert
Frazer) and his uncaring wife Edith (Natlie Moorhead). The Siblings
are split up by the divorce of their parents. 15 years later Fred is
a college dropout who gets a job as a saloon piano player. Marion
marries hastily to Roy (Larry Kent), a diamond smuggler arrested on
their wedding night! Almost thrown out of her apartment, she meets
Elsie Ford (Barbara Pepper) who takes her to the saloon where her bro
is working. Roy also shows up and taunts and manhandles Marion until
Fred lays him out. Brother and sister are finally united but Roy is
shot when he tussles with Fred again. Dad comes to the rescue and
it's proven someone else did the shooting. Mom and dad get back
together and everyone lives happily ever after in this low budget
badly acted rumination on the pitfalls of divorce.
This is a remake of an 1918 silent film
of the same name that starred the director of this sound version
Walter Shumway (his only directorial effort) and his wife Corra
Beach, who wrote the book it's based on.
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