SILVER

After seven long years, Nick Arden (Cary Grant) finally accepts that his wife Ellen (Irene Dunne) was lost at sea and isn't coming back, and has her declared legally dead in order to marry his new squeeze Bianca (Gail Patrick). However, Ellen survived the shipwreck and has just been rescued along with hunky Stephen Burkett (Randolph Scott) from the South Seas desert island on which they've been living. Ellen surprises Nick at the Yosemite lodge where they honeymooned — and where he has brought new wife Bianca — leading to many comical complications and far-fetched excuses from the ever-more exasperated Nick to delay the consummation of his new marriage. But just what were Stephen and Ellen — who nicknamed each other "Adam" and "Eve" — doing on that island all this time? DIR Garson Kanin; SCR Bella Spewack, Sam Spewack, from the poem "Enoch Arden" by Alfred Lord Tennyson; SCR/PROD Leo McCarey. U.S., 1940, b&w, 88 min. NOT RATED

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