Thou Shalt Not Covet
Cast & Crew
Colin Campbell
[frederick] Tyrone Power
Kathlyn Williams
Guy Oliver
Eugenie Besserer
James Oliver Curwood
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At first envying their happiness, the scientist eventually falls in love with his neighbor's wife. When her husband goes on a business trip to Africa, the scientist also goes abroad to avoid temptation but finds himself sailing from Cairo aboard the same ship as his neighbor's wife, who is traveling to join her husband. The ship is wrecked when it collides with another vessel, and the two are marooned together at the edge of the jungle, with the woman suffering from amnesia and mistaking the scientist for her husband. About to kill himself to save the honor of his neighbors' marriage, the scientist is saved by the return of the woman's memory and by the subsequent arrival of her husband. Electing to remain in the jungle, the lonely scientist toasts the couple's happiness from afar.
Director
Colin Campbell
Cast
[frederick] Tyrone Power
Kathlyn Williams
Guy Oliver
Eugenie Besserer
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The film's subtitles, in the form of entries in the protagonist's diary, are written in the first person. Exteriors from the film were shot at the Selig Zoo in Los Angeles, and the zoo's animals were used extensively.
