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Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
Directed by Walter Lang
Overview
Broadway’s most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman’s clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
Rated NR | Length 75 minutes
Actors
Walter Connolly | Doris Kenyon | Robert Young | Scotty Beckett | Henry Kolker | Akim Tamiroff | Gilbert Emery | George Humbert | Hobart Bosworth | Macon Jones | Rollo Lloyd | Maidel Turner | Hugh Huntley | Yale Puppeteers | Charles Middleton | Ricca Allen | Stella Adams | Lois Albright | Brooks Benedict | Walter Brennan | Virginia True Boardman | Edmund Burns | Mary Carr | Allan Cavan | Ruth Clifford | Elinor Fair | Betty Francisco | Bud Geary | May Foster | Adda Gleason | Clarence Geldart | Mary Gordon | Arthur Stuart Hull | W.E. Lawrence | Mary MacLaren