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French Leave Synopsis
The pretty young wife of an English captain, in World War One, visits him in his billet in a little town in France, behind the front lines. She poses as the daughter of the French woman who owns the home where her husband has his meals along with his Colonel and a junior officer. The Colonel and the other officer both fall in love with the supposed French mademoiselle, and her husband has a hard time explaining things when he keeps getting caught kissing the landlady's "daughter."
An Amateur Devil Synopsis
Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.
"French Leave" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "An Amateur Devil" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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