SPOILERS:
In my research on this rare film I did find this one description that makes it sound like a moral melodrama. I hope it will become available some day...
"To improve his family's financial situation, architect David F. Cole gives in to the cajoling of his co-worker, playboy Phil Graham, and agrees to socialize with wealthy older women as part of a plan to increase his business. While David flirts successfully with a series of vain matrons, his wife Sue dotes on their two children, "Sonny" and Carol. After impressing Shirley Ross, a sophisticated, influential heiress, David's career blossoms and his ambitions grow. At the same time, Sue's increasing neglect of her husband encourages him to spend more time with Shirley and eventually leads to their divorce and David's marriage to her rival. Many years later, while David and Shirley are living in Europe, Sue discovers that Sonny and Carol have become self-involved and reckless adults and grows especially concerned when she learns that Carol is infatuated with Phil. When confronted by Sue, Phil announces that if she truly wants to understand her children, she should live her life as they do. As advised, Sue sheds her conservative clothes and manner and starts a public "affair" with Phil. Oblivious to the point behind their mother's change, Sonny and Carol fume over her sudden lack of interest in them and disapprove strongly of her new image. Then, when Sue's liaison with Phil makes the local scandal column, they plot to force Phil into marrying her. In Paris, David, now a famous architect, learns of Sue's rumored affair through his former American employer and rushes back to America with Shirley. As soon as he sees Sue with Phil, who has just proposed marriage, David realizes that he still loves his ex-wife and tells Shirley he wants a divorce. David then returns home to find that Carol has been shot accidentally by Sonny during a tussle over a gun, which Sonny had planned to use on Phil if he refused to marry Sue. After reassuring her that Carol's wound is only superficial, David embraces Sue and his soundly reformed children."
In my research on this rare film I did find this one description that makes it sound like a moral melodrama. I hope it will become available some day...
"To improve his family's financial situation, architect David F. Cole gives in to the cajoling of his co-worker, playboy Phil Graham, and agrees to socialize with wealthy older women as part of a plan to increase his business. While David flirts successfully with a series of vain matrons, his wife Sue dotes on their two children, "Sonny" and Carol. After impressing Shirley Ross, a sophisticated, influential heiress, David's career blossoms and his ambitions grow. At the same time, Sue's increasing neglect of her husband encourages him to spend more time with Shirley and eventually leads to their divorce and David's marriage to her rival. Many years later, while David and Shirley are living in Europe, Sue discovers that Sonny and Carol have become self-involved and reckless adults and grows especially concerned when she learns that Carol is infatuated with Phil. When confronted by Sue, Phil announces that if she truly wants to understand her children, she should live her life as they do. As advised, Sue sheds her conservative clothes and manner and starts a public "affair" with Phil. Oblivious to the point behind their mother's change, Sonny and Carol fume over her sudden lack of interest in them and disapprove strongly of her new image. Then, when Sue's liaison with Phil makes the local scandal column, they plot to force Phil into marrying her. In Paris, David, now a famous architect, learns of Sue's rumored affair through his former American employer and rushes back to America with Shirley. As soon as he sees Sue with Phil, who has just proposed marriage, David realizes that he still loves his ex-wife and tells Shirley he wants a divorce. David then returns home to find that Carol has been shot accidentally by Sonny during a tussle over a gun, which Sonny had planned to use on Phil if he refused to marry Sue. After reassuring her that Carol's wound is only superficial, David embraces Sue and his soundly reformed children."
