Stolen Paradise
Cast & Crew
Louis Gasnier
Leon Janney
Eleanor Hunt
Esther Muir
Wilma Francis
Doris Blaine
Film Details
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Synopsis
Young Robert Gordon, who is attending a Catholic academy, goes home when his father remarries. He falls in love with his stepsister, a divorced woman ten years his senior, and abandons his plans to enter the priesthood. After spending a happy summer with his stepsister, Robert returns to school and has an affair with a nightclub singer. The next summer reunites Robert and his stepsister, but he realizes their relationship is wrong. After joining the RAF and being wounded in action, Robert returns to the academy and decides to become a priest.
Director
Louis Gasnier
Cast
Leon Janney
Eleanor Hunt
Esther Muir
Wilma Francis
Doris Blaine
Herbert Fischer
Roy Tracy
Fred Meilsey
Mamie Smith
Larry Hodges
Billy Birnes
Charles Shaw
Gilda Lynch
Edna May Harris
Gus Smith
George Williams
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Notes
This film was also reviewed under the title Adolescence. According to the The Exhibitor review, which gave a running time of 79 minutes, the film was condemned by the National Catholic Legion of Decency. The October 1941 Motion Picture Herald review noted that Monogram's Chicago exchange took the picture out of general release and sold it as "a roadshow sex picture." The Motion Picture Herald review also listed the picture's running time as 62 minutes, suggesting that considerable footage May have been deleted for the Chicago run. According to information on file with the NYSA, the New York censors demanded eliminations, and the film's running time in that state was approximately 69 minutes. The The Exhibitor review refers to two of the cast members as Fred Nielsey and Billy Vines, but the Motion Picture Herald review calls these actors Fred Meilsey and Billy Birnes.
