Love Is Love

Summary

Gerry Sands, a man of malleable constitution whose latent editorial aspirations are stifled by the oppressive shadow of his employer, the unscrupulous locksmith Nick Barket, finds himself coerced into a clandestine life of safe-cracking. This trajectory of moral erosion reaches a definitive zenith during a nocturnal heist where a serendipitous encounter with a discarded copy of Hamlet acts as a secular epiphany. The Bard’s prose pierces through Gerry's psychological inertia, compelling a visceral rejection of his criminal vocation. Despite the subsequent efforts of his devoted paramour, Polly Ann Kerry, to anchor him in the legitimate world of hotel service, the narrative takes a sinister turn under the machinations of Red Devlin. Devlin, a predatory architect of vice, orchestrates a sophisticated frame-up that forces Gerry into a self-imposed exile. Seeking anonymity and redemption in the rugged American West, Gerry reinvented himself as a typesetter for a frontier periodical—a literal and metaphorical resetting of his life’s font. Meanwhile, Polly’s own fortitude shines as she dismantles the criminal syndicate from within, though the emotional toll of Gerry's silence leaves her in a state of psychosomatic fragility. The film culminates in a high-stakes return where Gerry risks his tenuous freedom to find his ailing love. In a poignant subversion of legal rigidity, a police captain—himself enamored with Polly—recognizes the profound integrity of their bond and grants a twenty-four-hour window for a marital union that serves as both a legal reprieve and a spiritual homecoming.

Synopsis

Weak willed Gerry Sands, who wants to become an editor, is forced by his employer, locksmith Nick Barket, to crack safes, until, during a robbery, he reads some words from a dropped copy of Hamlet , and stops. Overjoyed, his sweetheart Polly Ann Kerry, gets him work at the hotel where she works, but Red Devlin, the brains behind the burglaries, frames Gerry for theft. Devlin bails him out, hoping he will return to safe-cracking, but Gerry leaves town and becomes a typesetter for a Western newspaper. After Polly exposes the crooks, she becomes ill from grief at not hearing from Gerry. Gerry returns and, risking arrest, goes to the police station to locate Polly. The police captain, who loves Polly, but realizes that she loves Gerry, gives him twenty-four hours probation to find and marry her. After he finds her, she thinks that he wants to marry her to escape jail, but the police captain vouches for Gerry's integrity, and they marry.