This was the last film released under the RKO-Pathe name. The company was taken over by RKO Radio shortly after the film's release.
RKO bought the rights of the play from Gloria Swanson. Director George Fitzmaurice was borrowed from MGM and Phillips Holmes (in the role later played by Joel McCrea) from Paramount. The finished film was considered so bad that George Cukor was summoned by Selznick to direct two weeks of retakes, with McCrea taking over Holmes'role.
Lucia Bronder's play was unpublished and based on her short story "Our Judy," published in Smart Set Magazine (date undetermined).
A young man turns up unannounced at a seemingly respectable family home. He has come with the news of the family's only son, Jack who went missing as a young teenager. Who is this stranger, how does he know Jack and what does he want? The mother has not seen Jack for over 10 years yet she seems unhappy about this man's intrusion. Why is she not more welcoming? The father longs to hear the news of Jack and invites the stranger to stay for dinner. Things begin to unravel when he is introduced to Amy, a subdued young girl who is Jack's illegitimate daughter and the reason we are told Jack ran away those years ago. But now even darker family secrets emerge about the real reason Jack left and as accusations start to fly the true identity of the young man comes clear... and why has he come back home. Does he have the strength to stop history repeating itself once more? Written by Tim Supple
Is a UCLA graduate student film.
