Oil For The Lamps Of China

Hester Adams weds Stephen Chase, but shell soon discover he already has a wife. Hes married to his job with Atlantis Oil, acting as the companys roving man in China as it taps into a burgeoning market. Based on a bestseller and directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Oil for the Lamps of China follows Chase (Pat OBrien) as he obeys the dictates of the corporate hierarchy. Hell betray a friend. Abandon his wife in childbirth to attend to a business emergency. Sacrifice one life and risk his own to protect a trifling amount of Atlantiss wealth. Critics noted the film did not wholly match the novels anti-industry broadside. Yet even today theres enough here for anyone whos ever faced the conflict of career and personal life.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 15 februari, 2015