Darby and Joan

Peggy Simpson is devoted to her younger sister, Pamela Bevan, who has been blind since she was an infant. She and Mickey Brantford love each other, but he has no money and no prospects until he finishes his study of the law. So she marries his wealthy uncle, Ian Fleming, and tries to make a go of it.

There are some dedicated performers here, including Tod Slaughter as Miss Simpson's rather futile father. The story, with its is-it-suicide-or-murder plot is a standard if unremarkable one, and some of the performances seem off, like Miss Simpson's or Audrene Brier, or miscalculated, like Slaughter, who seems to have been miscast -- or perhaps that's simply my taste for him in full-blooded melodramas. DP John Silver is ambitious with his pan shots in the early part of the movie, if rather more staid later on. The overall result is a decent if unremarkable potboiler.