She Had to Choose

Drama, USA, 1934, 65 min.



With her last dime, Sally Bates, an unemployed Texas tomboy newly arrived in Los Angeles, buys a doughnut and coffee at a drive-in barbecue stand, which is owned by former college football star Bill Cutler. After closing the drive-in, Bill and Wally, a waiter, find Sally asleep in her car and offer her a steak dinner. While Sally and Bill become acquainted over dinner, two hold-up men burst into the restaurant and threaten Bill at gunpoint. As Bill struggles with the armed men, Sally pulls out an old Texas six-shooter and wounds one of them. Grateful for Sally's life-saving courage, Bill offers her a job as a waitress and insists that she move in with his mother. Although she is in love with Bill, Sally hides her feelings, convinced that he prefers Clara Berry, a spoiled rich girl who is the stated choice of Bill's social climbing mother. While Bill dates Clara, Sally becomes involved with Clara's irresponsible brother Jack, a turn of events that worries Bill. One night, Jack gives Sally one of his sister's evening gowns to wear and takes her to a nightclub where Bill and Clara are dining. When Clara sees Sally in her dress, she ridicules her in front of Bill. Humiliated, Sally tears off the dress and leaves with Jack. Later, Bill finds Sally in Jack's "hideout" apartment and, assuming the worse, fights with Jack. During the struggle, Jack is accidentally killed, and Bill is charged with his murder. Bill's defense rests on his assertion that he was saving an "innocent" woman, an assertion that is threatened by a blackmailer who knows that Jack and Sally got married in Mexico just before the fight. To save Bill, Sally borrows $1,500 from Clara to silence the blackmailer and then corroborates Bill's testimony in court. During the trial, Bill, who has learned of Clara's loan, denounces Sally as a traitor. Once Bill is acquitted, a dejected Sally leaves Los Angeles, but before she has gone very far, Bill, having heard from Clara of Sally's sacrifice, intercepts her at a gas station and proposes.
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Režie: Ralph Ceder
Herci: Buster Crabbe, Isabel Jewellová, Sally Blane, Regis Toomey, Maidel Turner, více...

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