Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise: A young woman flees from her loutish father--who wants to marry her off--and finds refuge with Gable, but circumstances keep them apart until the final clinch. Contrived melodrama made compelling by the ever-mesmerizing Garbo

A young woman flees from her lout of a father and into the arms of her lover from whom she has been separated by hypocrisy and misfortune.

GARBO AND GABLE HAVE MORE THAN AN AGREEABLE APPEARNCE TOGETHER,THEY ARE EXQUISTELY PAINFULLY IN LOVE. AS IN MOST GARBO MOVIES SHE SHOWS AN APTITUDE FOR THE TRAGIC-LOVE STORY(I HAVE NEVER SEEN GARBO MORE EMOTIONALY EFFUSIVE).

Susan, an orphan, lives the life of Cinderella with rustic relatives. She escapes one stormy night when the fiance her relatives chose tries to force his attentions. Rodney, an architecht, is the prince who rescues her, but he has to take a trip and the wicked relatives catch up with her again. Her next rescuer is a tatooed lady in a circus who can't save her from the circus manager. Rodney shows up and dismisses her as a fallen woman. Susan moves up in the world to the penthouse of a politician who can offer a construction contract to Rodney. Rodney says no and flees to the jungle with Susan in pursuit.

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