
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident.

Jeanie Macpherson
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The year 1920 marked a pivotal juncture for Cecil B. DeMille, a filmmaker whose name had already become synonymous with the burgeoning grandiosity of Hollywood. In Something to Think About, DeMille eschews some of the more flamboyant extravagances of his later biblical epics in favor of a domestic drama that is ...

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Cecil B. DeMille

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" The year 1920 marked a pivotal juncture for Cecil B. DeMille, a filmmaker whose name had already become synonymous with the burgeoning grandiosity of Hollywood. In Something to Think About, DeMille eschews some of the more flamboyant extravagances of his later biblical epics in favor of a domestic drama that is as intellectually rigorous as it is emotionally taxing. This is not merely a story of unrequited love; it is a profound examination of the transactional nature of human kindness an..."


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