Behold My Wife!

Gene Raymond's family doesn't want Ann Sheridan (in one of nineteen screen appearances that year) to marry him, so they tell her he's gone to Europe and hand her a check. She throws herself out of a window. Raymond gets in his car and goes on a drunken spree that ends in Arizona with a bullet in his shoulder, with Sylvia Sidney as his buck-skinned nurse. To gain revenge on his family, he marries her and takes her back to New York.

The modern viewer will be annoyed by the casting of White actors (later Oscar winner Dean Jagger also appears as an Apache)and the wrong details (Miss Sidney's Apache father wears a Comanche head dress), despite anthropologist Oiver Lafarge being one of the script writers. That's not the point of this movie, though. It's another of the weepers that Miss Sidney appeared in during this period. She loves Mr. Raymond desperately and, as usual, is fine in her role. So is Mr. Raymond. He spent most of the 1930s in lightweight romantic comedies, more notable for his blond good looks than his acting abilities. For 1934, with the Production Code about to take force, this was actually a brave movie, with its themes of miscegenation and hypocrisy. Six months later it could not have been made. Eighty-five years later, it seems coy to the modern era.