Seven Days Leave (1930)
83 mins | Drama | 25 January 1930
Cast:
Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer, Daisy Belmore [ More ]Director:
Richard WallaceWriters:
Dan Totheroh, John FarrowCinematographer:
Charles LangEditor:
George Nichols Jr.Production Company:
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.The film's working title was Medals. FDYB credits John Cromwell as the film's co-director. James M. Barrie's famous play The Old Lady Shows Her Medals opened on Broadway on 14 May 1917, and has been revived several times on stage in both London and New York. Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. were cast in a radio adaptation of the play for Screen Directors Playhouse on 7 Oct 1946; on 23 May 1956, Gracie Fields and Jackie Cooper appeared in a United States Steel Hour television adaptation of the play; and, a second United States Steel Hour adaptation was broadcast on 12 Jun 1963, starring Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontaine and Donald Madden. ...
The film's working title was Medals. FDYB credits John Cromwell as the film's co-director. James M. Barrie's famous play The Old Lady Shows Her Medals opened on Broadway on 14 May 1917, and has been revived several times on stage in both London and New York. Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. were cast in a radio adaptation of the play for Screen Directors Playhouse on 7 Oct 1946; on 23 May 1956, Gracie Fields and Jackie Cooper appeared in a United States Steel Hour television adaptation of the play; and, a second United States Steel Hour adaptation was broadcast on 12 Jun 1963, starring Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontaine and Donald Madden.
Sarah Ann Dowey, a widowed Scotch charwoman, regrets that she has no son at the front during the war. Reading of the exploits of Kenneth, a young Canadian soldier of the "Black Watch" regiment, she claims he is her son, and when he is wounded and sent to London on a 5-day leave, a Y. M. C. A. worker tells him that he has met his mother. Kenneth chides Sarah for the deception but agrees to let her be his mother during his stay. He gets into a fight with British sailors over his kilts; and cursing the army, he threatens to desert; but touched by his "mother's" patriotism, he returns to the front in good cheer. Later, in Flanders, he is sent on a mission and never returns; his "mother" receives his medals awarded for bravery and marches off to work, her head held ...
Sarah Ann Dowey, a widowed Scotch charwoman, regrets that she has no son at the front during the war. Reading of the exploits of Kenneth, a young Canadian soldier of the "Black Watch" regiment, she claims he is her son, and when he is wounded and sent to London on a 5-day leave, a Y. M. C. A. worker tells him that he has met his mother. Kenneth chides Sarah for the deception but agrees to let her be his mother during his stay. He gets into a fight with British sailors over his kilts; and cursing the army, he threatens to desert; but touched by his "mother's" patriotism, he returns to the front in good cheer. Later, in Flanders, he is sent on a mission and never returns; his "mother" receives his medals awarded for bravery and marches off to work, her head held high.
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