The 1934 film Of Human Bondage was the first film adaptation of the 1915 novel of the same name by the British author W. Somerset Maugham.

Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with illiterate waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him, runs off with a salesman and returns unmarried and pregnant. Philip gets her an apartment and they become engaged. Mildred runs off with another medical student. Philip takes her back again when she returns with her baby. She wrecks his apartment and burns the securities he needs to pay tuition. He gets a job as a salesman, has surgery on his foot, receives an inheritance, and returns to school where he learns Mildred is dying. Written by Ed Stephan

Medical student Philip fall in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair. But when Philip is told about her constant infideliy, they break up. Mildred quits her job and becomes a prostitute. But Philip is still in love with her. Written by Mattias Thuresson

This movie is based on Somerset Maugham's novel... about how sensitive Phillip is all his life because of his club foot... He feels doomed, always to fail, in life and in love. He fights back tears and emotions daily. He takes constant abuse as a child, and becomes isolated and lonely...this carries through to adulthood and harbors in his love of Mildred. This shows one of the dark sides of love, how much abuse we can take, and still go back for more. Written by John Lueckenotte