the ending--Help

What you saw was the ending to DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS.

For some reason, TCM stuck the film DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS between FOUR DAUGHTERS
and its sequel, FOUR WIVES. DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS has the same cast with a similar premise--Claude Rains has four adult daughters, then John Garfield shows
up as "Mr. Wrong." Despite the similarities, DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS has nothing
to do with the "FOUR..." series.

At the end of FOUR DAUGHTERS, Mickey, feeling that he has trapped his wife in
an unhappy marriage, indeed commits suicide. To make the ending even more cruel,
Priscilla Lane's character, after a VERY brief mourning period, starts hanging
around with Felix Dietz again. Oh well, life goes on. The End.

But is it? The sequel begins with Priscilla's character already engaged to
Felix when she learns that she is pregnant--with Mickey's baby! So apparently
she couldn't give poor Mickey a proper period of mourning before she went
Felix-hunting (say, more than 2 months?). A little cold, huh?

Then there's that whole business of palming off the adopted baby on the other
sister, but I won't go into that. This series tends to have a cruel streak
which spoils it.


I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

If he didn't kill himself, he lost his mind--he had a crazy look as his car sped out of control, and then we saw his foot going down on the gas pedal.

There are plot points in this movie that don't make sense--the whole Emma in love with Felix thing, so his sister won't marry Felix. Then Emma marries the lunkhead.

There's a big jump from the Ann/Felix engagement scene to the scene with Mickey and Ann in the park. It's kind of jarring--I think a scene must have been cut.

But the movie is pretty near irresistable, isn't it?