John Foster (Conrad Nagel) and Kenneth Grainger (Donald Cook) are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor (Esther Ralston), writes him that their engagement is off, he goes to Mandalay and meets and marries a nightclub singer, Jeanie Barton (Kay Linaker), while on his drunken holiday.
Is it worth your time? Honestly? Only if you have a very specific craving for 1930s jungle soap operas. If you like your dramas with a side of colonial awkwardness and characters who make baffling life choices, you’ll probably find something to chuckle at. People who need tight pacing or a story that makes actual sense...
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Howard Bretherton
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"Is it worth your time? Honestly? Only if you have a very specific craving for 1930s jungle soap operas. If you like your dramas with a side of colonial awkwardness and characters who make baffling life choices, you’ll probably find something to chuckle at. People who need tight pacing or a story that makes actual sense should look elsewhere. So, our hero John Foster gets his heart broken and immediately decides that marrying the first nightclub singer he meets in Mandalay is the perfect solutio..."
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