Dynamite

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with Roger, who is not as wealthy and is married to Marcia. All three treat the situation with the greatest modernity; Marcia will divorce Roger gladly if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia’s fortune is at risk, because the trust that pays her lapses if she is not married by a certain date. To meet that condition she arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who has been condemned to death for a crime he did not commit, and pays him so that he can provide for his little sister. At the last moment the real criminal is found and he is freed. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she does not know. Cecil B. DeMille’s hundred and twenty nine minute film was completed in 1929.