Eleanor Boardman is a native San Franciscan, but she left as a toddler to be raised by her aristocratic Spanish relatives. Now she's returning to stay with her San Franciscan relatives, as she explains to her suitor, Harrison Ford. As she wends her way up a hill, plumbing magnate Pat O'Malley -- playing a character imaginatively called 'Pat O'Malley' -- gives her a lift in his auto. He falls in love instantly, but she cannot bring herself to love a mere plumber, until suddenly she does, and then equally abruptly, doesn't.
How very odd and random! At first I thought I was looking at a chopped-down copy, but no, there isn't much cut from the original running time. Of course, we fully expect that the aristocratic Miss Boardman will wind up marrying O'Malley, under whatever name he chooses to use in the film. It's a very odd movie for King Vidor to direct, but perhaps his issues with his own divorced wife, Florence Vidor, were coming through. If so, what does it say that he and Miss Boardman married the year after this was released?
