The Return of Carol Deane (1938)

Film details

Featuring

Bebe Daniels Arthur Margetson Zena Dare
Director

Arthur Woods
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1938
Genre

Melodrama
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

In 1912 London, Carol Deane, famous for her portrait painted by Mark Poynton, falls in love and marries Lord Robert Brenning, much against the wishes of Poynton himself, who is infatuated with her. With the First World War, Brenning goes off to the Western Front, while Carol becomes a nurse. While working at a hospital she meets Poynton who has been admitted as a patient. Poynton admits to Carol how he is still madly in love with her. After being released from the hospital and returning to his flat, Poynton telephones Carol saying that she must come to see him or he will call on her and cause a scandal. When Carol duly visits Poynton, he pulls a gun on her and demands that she return to live with him. In a struggle the gun is fired and Poynton is killed. When Carol is put on trial for murder, her husband is due to return as a witness, but she receives a telegram while in jail to tell her that he has been killed in action. Found guilty of murder, she is sentenced to 15 years for manslaughter. Released in 1928, her son, who had only been a baby at the time of her incarceration, now has no knowledge of her and she travels to New York. Meeting Major Scott-Vaughan on the voyage, she becomes involved in his crooked gambling joints in the States, and, on returning to Britain with Scott-Vaughan in 1938, they establish a similar venture in London in what she discovers is the house where she lived with her husband. On the opening evening, Carol is operating the roulette wheel when her son comes to the club. Recognising him from a picture she had seen in a newspaper at the time of his recent wedding, Carol helps him from losing thousands of pounds, and to reconcile him with his new bride who disapproved of his gambling, but without revealing that she is his mother.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Carol Deane
    
    Bebe Daniels
  - Mark Poynton
    
    Arthur Margetson
  - Lady Brenning
    
    Zena Dare
  - Anne Dempster
    
    Chili Bouchier
  - Lord Robert Brenning
    
    Michael Drake
  - Major Scott-Vaughan
    
    Wyndham Goldie
  - Lord David Brenning
    
    Peter Coke
  - Nicky
    
    David Burns
  - Diana
    
    Lesley Brook
  - prosecuting counsel
    
    Ian Maclean
  - Lamont
    
    Aubrey Mallalieu
  - Dr. Dawes
    
    Ian Fleming
  - [police sergeant]
    
    Syd Crossley
  - [art critic]
    
    André Morell
Credits
- Direction:
  - Director
    
    Arthur Woods
  Production:
  - ©/Production Company
    
    Warner Brothers First National Productions
  - Executive Producer
    
    Jackson, Jerome J.
  - Studio
    
    Teddington Studios
  Writing:
  - Screenplay and Dialogue
    
    Meehan Jnr, John
  - Screenplay and Dialogue
    
    Phipps, Tommy
  - From a story by
    
    Joseph Santley
  Photography:
  - Photography
    
    Basil Emmott
  Editing:
  - Editor
    
    Bates, A.S.
  Design:
  - Art Director
    
    Peter Proud
  Sound:
  - Sound
    
    H.C. Pearson
  Consultant:
  - Dialogue Supervision
    
    Anthony Hankey