Morning Glory

The account is set in America during the Depression. Will Parker is a man on parole after a conviction for murder. He answers an advertisement in a newspaper. It was placed by a widow named Elly, who is looking for a husband. Elly has two children and another on the way. All of them are by her first husband, who died in an accident. Will is taken on at Elly’s farm as a hired hand. In the months before the baby is born the two fall in love and marry. But the happiness does not last. Will is held responsible for the killing of a local waitress. Behind the accusation is his former overseer. The work was adapted from a novel by LaVyrle Spencer. Christopher Reeve and Deborah Raffin take the leads in Steven Hilliard Stern’s Canadian and American coproduction of 1993.