Jack Spencer becomes so absorbed in his business affairs that he neglects his wife Eileen who, out of boredom and loneliness, accepts the attentions of novelist Carter Ballantyne, but on the night they are to elope, she learns that Jack has lost both his money and his eyesight, so she dismisses her suitor and promises to raise the money for her husband's operation. With her friend Dolly Page, Eileen cheats at cards and soon amasses a fortune, but while Jack is in France for his treatment, Carter appears and threatens to expose her unless she submits to him.
Guy Bolton, Bennet Musson
United States
The 1918 cinematic landscape was a crucible of evolving narrative structures, and Marriage stands as a testament to the era's fascination with the domestic Gothic. While many contemporary features adhered to rigid moral binaries, this collaboration between writers Guy Bolton and Bennet Musson dares to explore the penum...
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James Kirkwood
James Kirkwood
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"The 1918 cinematic landscape was a crucible of evolving narrative structures, and Marriage stands as a testament to the era's fascination with the domestic Gothic. While many contemporary features adhered to rigid moral binaries, this collaboration between writers Guy Bolton and Bennet Musson dares to explore the penumbral regions of the human psyche. The film is less about the institution of holy matrimony and more about the transactional nature of survival within it.The Architecture of Neglect..."
