Ann Vickers [DVD]

Based on the novel of the same name by Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers established John Cromwell as a specialist in the genre of melodrama. Ann vickers (Irene Dunne) is a young and determined woman who, after a relationship with an officer (Bruce Private) in the middle of the First World War, with the result of an unwanted pregnancy, understands that it has only been a temporary adventure and suffers a Abortion. Disillusioned, she will stop looking for a stable partner and will go to work in a Penitentiary Center, putting all her efforts into trying to change a system that she considers unfair, confronting the center's management. Ann will use her lived experiences to translate them into a best-selling book with a foreword by a well-known judge (Walter Huston). Thanks to the success of the book, Ann will find work running a prison reintegration center, meeting Judge Dolphin shortly after at a party. An inevitable attraction will arise between them, but like any good melodrama, new obstacles will come between them and their happiness. Thanks to a masterful performance by Irene Dunne as Ann Vickers, establishing her as one of the most popular dramatic actresses of the moment, Crowmwell's film was a success thanks to an agile direction full of ellipses that knew how to perfectly condense a long text in barely an hour and a quarter long...