Samson

IMDb link: 0028214
IMDb rating: 6.7 (114 votes)
Genres: Drama, Romance
Director: Maurice Tourneur
Cast: Harry Baur, Gaby Morlay, Gabrielle Dorziat, André Lefaur and others

Release date: 4 Mar 1936
Release year: 1936
Runtime: 90 minutes
Country: France
Keywords: melodrama, finance, one word title, older man younger woman relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, marriage without love, society, social class, arranged marriage

Plot:

Jacques Brachart is a parvenu in the finance, the boss of the African Coppers. The D'Andeline are noble but pennyless. They make their daughter Anne-Marie marry Brachart. A marriage of convenience for them. But Brachart is really in love with Anne-Marie, though she can hardly stand him. One days, she takes a lover, Jerome Le Govain, a dandy whose money comes from Brachart's advises... A fierce melodrama.

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