Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Starring: Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, Franchot Tone
Directed by: Howard Hawks

Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: The story of a British family whose lives are complicated by World War I.  Diana (Joan Crawford) has lost her father to the war and her brother Ronnie (Franchot Tone) and childhood sweetheart Claude (Robert Young) are sent to France to fight.  An American named Bogard (Gary Cooper) buys their family estate but his apathy about the war changes when he falls in love with Diana.  They eventually all find themselves in France trying to sort out their obligations and emotions with the war as a constant threat.

Purr Blur: At one point Diana believes Bogard is dead when it is reported he died while piloting a plane on a mission.  The film cuts back to the English estate where Diana’s housekeeper Eleanor (Hilda Vaughn) is sitting alone in the servant’s cottage holding a black and white cat on her lap.  Someone knocks on the door and Eleanor gets up and sets the cat on a table before answering the door to find it is Bogard, whom she is frightened to see, thinking he must be a ghost.

Final Mewsings: Cats don’t like their laps being taken away by supposedly dead American airmen.

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