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A Bill of Divorcement (1940)

A Bill of Divorcement poster
Directed by
John Farrow
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 14m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman must decide whether to divorce her husband after he returns from a war with mental instability. The film focuses on the strain this puts on his family.

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What happens

A Bill of Divorcement is a 1940 film directed by John Farrow. It was also known as Never to Love and was based on a 1921 British play of the same name written by Clemence Dane that had been filmed in 1932 with John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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