The Stolen Bride

Carey Wilson’s screenplay for 'The Stolen Bride' unfolds a classic romantic entanglement, transplanting age-old societal divides into a transatlantic drama. It chronicles the passionate, yet doomed, American romance between Sari, the distinguished daughter of Count Thurzo, and Franz Pless, a humble shoemaker’s son. Their impending union is abruptly severed by Sari’s recall to European aristocracy, a summons that inadvertently plunges Franz into a military conscription upon his pursuit. Through a cruel twist of fate, Franz finds himself serving under Baron von Heimberg, the very man Count Thurzo intends for Sari’s hand – a Baron whose ambition for this advantageous marriage overrides his existing entanglement with Ilona. As the threads of love, duty, and manipulation tighten, Franz’s desperate act of defiance against the Baron precipitates his exile, unknowingly setting the stage for Ilona’s calculated intervention.