My Little Quibble


I'm not going to comment on the acting, melodrama, racism, photography or Cecil B. De Mille and his actors. All those things have been well-covered by others here on IMDb. What I think needs noting is that the wife finds out her husband has been arrested by reading the newspaper. Hasn't anyone, either in 1915 or since, found this odd? She's not hiding, for Christ's sake, but in her own home.

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I'm thinking the wife has a reputation for being a childish, flighty, immature little thing. Maybe people thought she couldn't handle the news? Or they wanted to "protect" her by not upsetting her with the news.

I find it more surprising that a dolt like the wife actually reads the paper daily with her breakfast than the fact she found out about the arrest from the newspaper.



No two persons ever watch the same movie.

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They slept in separate rooms, of course. :-> I do think this was somewhat normal for the upper crust in those days. She went home on her own, went to her bedroom, and didn't hear from him (which may have been a relief not having to explain herself).

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Well MY little quibble is that, in the end, she gets off scot-free for embezzlement. Granted the money was probably worked out between parties but isn't that a federal crime?

http://3linesabout.blogspot.com/2009/06/cheat-1915.html

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Surely she repaid the money (as her husband's investments had paid off) in time to give the money back to the Red Cross on time (so it hadn't lost out)

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There are a lot of little quibbles 

Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Cried

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