
Bettina Vanderpoel, the charming daughter of New York millionaire Reuben Vanderpoel, departs for England to visit her sister Rosalie, who is married to Sir Nigel Anstruthers, an impoverished English nobleman. Arriving at their dilapidated estate, Betty finds that Nigel not only has wasted Rosalie's fortune, but has treated his wife and their little son cruelly.

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Margaret Turnbull, Harvey F. Thew
United States

The cinematic landscape of 1918 was often dominated by the shadows of the Great War, yet The Shuttle, directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and based on the prose of Frances Hodgson Burnett, pivots toward a different kind of conflict: the socioeconomic friction between American industrialism and British feudalism. This isn't ...

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Rollin S. Sturgeon

Rollin S. Sturgeon
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"The cinematic landscape of 1918 was often dominated by the shadows of the Great War, yet The Shuttle, directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and based on the prose of Frances Hodgson Burnett, pivots toward a different kind of conflict: the socioeconomic friction between American industrialism and British feudalism. This isn't merely a tale of a damsel in distress; it is a sophisticated examination of the 'Dollar Princess' phenomenon, where the raw vitality of the New World is injected into the moribund ..."

