Behold My Wife! (1934)
Her savage heart pounded with revenge when her love went unwanted!
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
- Date of release
- 1934-12-06
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Mitchell Leisen
Casting
- Sylvia Sidney — Tonita Storm Cloud
- Gene Raymond — Michael Carter
- Laura Hope Crews — Mrs. Hubert (Catherine) Carter
- H.B. Warner — Hubert Carter
- Juliette Compton — Diana Carter-Curson
- Monroe Owsley — Bob Prentice
- Ann Sheridan — Mary White
- Kenneth Thomson — Jim Curson
- Dean Jagger — Pete
- Charlotte Granville — Mrs. Carolyn Sykes
- Eric Blore — Benson
- Dewey Robinson — Detective
Interesting facts
Behold My Wife! is a 1934 drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen. It stars Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond. Based on a novel by Sir Gilbert Parker, The Translation of a Savage, the story had been filmed before in the silent era in 1920 as Behold My Wife! starring Mabel Julienne Scott and Milton Sills. One of the plot's themes is a white man's romance and eventual marriage to an Apache woman.
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