Love Bound

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Love Bound
Love Bound.jpg
Directed by Robert F. Hill
Written byJames R. Gilbert
Robert F. Hill
George H. Plympton
Produced by Sam Efrus
Albert Herman
Starring Jack Mulhall
Natalie Moorhead
Clara Kimball Young
CinematographyE. Fox Walker
Edited byEarl Neville
Music by Lee Zahler
Production
company
Distributed byPeerless Pictures
Release date
  • March 1, 1932 (1932-03-01)
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Love Bound is a 1932 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Jack Mulhall, Natalie Moorhead, Clara Kimball Young. [1] It is a second feature produced by the Poverty Row studio Peerless Pictures. The film is also known as Murder on the High Seas, the alternative title it was later reissued under.

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Plot

Gold-digging actress Verna Wilson demands money from a financial theatrical backer by falsely threatening to tell his wife that their relationship is more than professional. After he pays up his son Dick discovers that Verna is part of a gang of blackmailers and is now fleeing the country on an ocean liner. He boards the ship along with his chauffeur and the two pose as wealthy playboys so that Verna will attempt to play the same trick on them. Dick and Verna instead fall in love, but things are complicated by the presence of her associates on board the ship, leading to a murder.

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References

  1. Pitts p.259

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