
Indiana Stillwater, the daughter of a wealthy American railroad industrialist, marries English nobleman Viscount Canning and travels to England. Her in-laws are somewhat shocked by her casualness in dress and manner, but welcome her into the family anyway.


A marriage certificate as battlefield One of the film’s earliest intertitles brands Indiana Stillwater “the railroad king’s uncontainable daughter,” and for the next hour Alice Joyce lets that epithet vibrate through every frame. Watch the way she enters a room: shoulders forward, chin tilted as if sniffing for new te...

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" A marriage certificate as battlefield One of the film’s earliest intertitles brands Indiana Stillwater “the railroad king’s uncontainable daughter,” and for the next hour Alice Joyce lets that epithet vibrate through every frame. Watch the way she enters a room: shoulders forward, chin tilted as if sniffing for new territory to lay track upon. Beside her, Holmes Herbert’s Viscount Canning is all backward momentum—weight on the heels, hands clasped behind as though guarding the family crest stit..."
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