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Actors: Josephine Hutchinson, George Brent, Colin Clive, Peggy Wood
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Right To Live |
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Based on a play by W. Somerset Maugham, The Right To Live stars Colin Clive as Maurice Trent. The movie opens up with Maurice and Stella (Josephine Hutchinson) happily enjoying the opera. Maurice asks Stella to marry him and she gives in after a little playful resistance. They are soon married and living on his beautiful estate. While chatting outside Major Licondra asks Maurice if he will test fly a plane the nest day for a friend of his, and Maurice obliges. He then gets a telegram stating that his mother is coming in by train at the same time. Stella agrees to pick her up. Maurice flies the plane overhead as the car drives back to the estate. he buzzes over the top of them several times when the engine stalls causing Maurice to crash. He has severly damaged his vertabrae and won't be able to walk again, but his family didn't have the heart to tell him. In an effort to keep his new bride happy Maurice calls for his brother to Colin (George Brent) to come and take Stella out on the town. Though Stella tried not to, she and Colin fall in love, but they don't want to break Maurice's morale.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Right To Live |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Brain/Body not working?
- physical disability
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- London
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Check here if B&W
Yes
Is this movie based on a
- play
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