Trespasser

The legendary Gloria Swanson stars in her first sound feature, a hit with audiences in 1929 whose pre-Code sensibilities make it still surprisingly modern today. Swanson is Marion Donnell, a humble secretary whose stunning beauty attracts the attention of New York's wealthy elite. Among her suitors are young Jack Merrick, the son of a rich tycoon, and her boss, the high-powered attorney Hector Ferguson. Eloping with Jack, she is devastated when his father has the marriage annulled, seeing Marion as nothing more than an opportunistic gold-digger. Unbeknownst to both men, she is pregnant with Jack's son. Seeing no other way to support the child, she runs into the arms of Ferguson. As the boy grows to maturity, Marion spends the years as the kept mistress of the married lawyer. A sudden heart attack claims Ferguson's life, and New York is shocked when his will decrees his fortune to his former secretary. Inquisitive reporters uncover not only Marion's relationship with her boss, but the parentage of her son. With the boy's identity revealed, his unscrupulous grandfather arrives to take the child away from the woman whose life he ruined years ago. But having now amassed a fortune, Marion won't let her son go without a fight.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 15 maj, 2016