Stranded
(1935)
73 or 75-76 mins | Drama | 29 June 1935
Director:
Frank BorzageWriters:
Delmer Daves, Frank Wead, Ferdinand ReyherCinematographer:
Sid HickoxEditor:
William HolmesProduction Designers:
Anton Grot, Hugh RetickerProduction Company:
Warner Bros. Productions Corp.Frank Wead's and Ferdinand Reyher's screen story was titled "Lady with a Badge," which was also the film's working title. Var notes that the title was changed so that people would not assume the film was about a policewoman. The film was planned to capitalize on the contemporary construction of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and director Frank Borzage shot some scenes on location at the bridge. Modern sources state that Lew Borzage was the assistant director and include the following cast members in the film: Edward McWade (Tim Powers), Burr Carruth (Old man), Emmett Vogan (Officer on ferry), Samuel R. McDaniel (Porter), Harry C. Bradley (Conductor), Eily Malyon (Old maid), John Kelly (Sailor), Edwin Mordant (Surgeon), Harrison Greene (Blustery man), Eleanor Wesselhoeft (Mrs. Young), Wally Wales (Peterson), Wilfred Lucas (Pat, a worker), Glen Cavender (Kolchak), Joe King (Dan Archer), Frank Sheridan (Boone), Emma Young (Chinese girl), Mia Liu (Japanese girl), Rita Rozelle (Polish girl), Louise Seidel (Danish girl), Frank LaRue (Doctor), Lillian Harmer (Desk attendant), Zeffie Tilbury (Old hag), Lillian Worth (Blonde), Georgia Cooper (Floor nurse), Tom Wilson (Immigrant), Philo McCullough (Immigration officer), Adrian Morris (Rivet boss), Milton Kibbee (Pat, the timekeeper), Vesey O'Davoren (Butler), Adrian Rosley (Headwaiter), Junior Coghlan (Page), Jack Richardson, Stan Cavanagh (Taxi drivers), Edwin Stanley (Police surgeon ...
Frank Wead's and Ferdinand Reyher's screen story was titled "Lady with a Badge," which was also the film's working title. Var notes that the title was changed so that people would not assume the film was about a policewoman. The film was planned to capitalize on the contemporary construction of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and director Frank Borzage shot some scenes on location at the bridge. Modern sources state that Lew Borzage was the assistant director and include the following cast members in the film: Edward McWade (Tim Powers), Burr Carruth (Old man), Emmett Vogan (Officer on ferry), Samuel R. McDaniel (Porter), Harry C. Bradley (Conductor), Eily Malyon (Old maid), John Kelly (Sailor), Edwin Mordant (Surgeon), Harrison Greene (Blustery man), Eleanor Wesselhoeft (Mrs. Young), Wally Wales (Peterson), Wilfred Lucas (Pat, a worker), Glen Cavender (Kolchak), Joe King (Dan Archer), Frank Sheridan (Boone), Emma Young (Chinese girl), Mia Liu (Japanese girl), Rita Rozelle (Polish girl), Louise Seidel (Danish girl), Frank LaRue (Doctor), Lillian Harmer (Desk attendant), Zeffie Tilbury (Old hag), Lillian Worth (Blonde), Georgia Cooper (Floor nurse), Tom Wilson (Immigrant), Philo McCullough (Immigration officer), Adrian Morris (Rivet boss), Milton Kibbee (Pat, the timekeeper), Vesey O'Davoren (Butler), Adrian Rosley (Headwaiter), Junior Coghlan (Page), Jack Richardson, Stan Cavanagh (Taxi drivers), Edwin Stanley (Police surgeon), Edward Keane (Doctor), Niles Welch (Safety engineer), Walter Clyde (Assistant), Marbeth Wright (Operator), Donald Downen (Clerk), Claudia Coleman (Madame), Sarah Padden (Workman's wife), Dick French (Clerk), Jessie Arnold (Scrubwoman), Henry Otho (Worker), Richard Loo (Groom), Frank Marlowe (Rollins, an agitator), Leo White (Haines, a drunken worker).
Lynn Palmer, a worker with the Travelers' Aid Society in San Francisco, is asked to share her apartment with Velma Tuthill, a socialite whose mother has donated a great deal of money to the Society. Velma is only interested in the job because it provides a way to meet her boyfriend without her mother's knowledge. Engineer Mack Hale meets both women when he comes to the Travelers' Aid station in search of his best steel worker, Stanislaus Janauschek. Although Velma flirts with Mack, he and Lynn recognize each other as childhood sweethearts and make a date for that evening. Mack, who is superintendent of the Golden Gate Bridge project, is threatened by Sharkey, a racketeer who demands protection money. When Mack refuses, Sharkey pays some of the workers to get their crew drunk while they are on the job. As a result, one of the drunken men falls to his death and Mack fires all the men who were drinking. Meanwhile, Mack and Lynn fall in love, but quarrel when she refuses to give up her job to marry him. Lynn learns that the bridge workers plan to hold a strike meeting to get rid of Mack and when he will not attend to defend himself, she faces the workers alone. At the last minute, Mack finds a worker who tells the others the truth about Sharkey and the strike is averted. Mack now understands the value of Lynn's work and they are ...
Lynn Palmer, a worker with the Travelers' Aid Society in San Francisco, is asked to share her apartment with Velma Tuthill, a socialite whose mother has donated a great deal of money to the Society. Velma is only interested in the job because it provides a way to meet her boyfriend without her mother's knowledge. Engineer Mack Hale meets both women when he comes to the Travelers' Aid station in search of his best steel worker, Stanislaus Janauschek. Although Velma flirts with Mack, he and Lynn recognize each other as childhood sweethearts and make a date for that evening. Mack, who is superintendent of the Golden Gate Bridge project, is threatened by Sharkey, a racketeer who demands protection money. When Mack refuses, Sharkey pays some of the workers to get their crew drunk while they are on the job. As a result, one of the drunken men falls to his death and Mack fires all the men who were drinking. Meanwhile, Mack and Lynn fall in love, but quarrel when she refuses to give up her job to marry him. Lynn learns that the bridge workers plan to hold a strike meeting to get rid of Mack and when he will not attend to defend himself, she faces the workers alone. At the last minute, Mack finds a worker who tells the others the truth about Sharkey and the strike is averted. Mack now understands the value of Lynn's work and they are reunited.
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