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Behold My Wife! (1934)

Behold My Wife! poster
Directed by
Mitchell Leisen
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 19m
Rated
NR
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A white man falls in love with and marries an Apache woman. The story deals with the challenges of their cross-cultural relationship.

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What happens

Behold My Wife! is a 1934 drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen. It stars Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond. Based on a novel by Sir Gilbert Parker, The Translation of a Savage, the story had been filmed before in the silent era in 1920 as Behold My Wife! starring Mabel Julienne Scott and Milton Sills. One of the plot's themes is a white man's romance and eventual marriage to an Apache woman. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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