New Moon

The film is set in Louisiana in the eighteenth century. Marianne comes from a wealthy French family. She runs her own estate. Charles works in her service. The man is in fact a French nobleman. He keeps his identity hidden. He had to flee his own country. The two set out on the same ship. There are other passengers aboard. Charles organises the labourers around him. They take control of the ship. The course is turned toward open water. Marianne stays with him in that situation. Something grows between the two of them. The film moves in the manner of an operetta, through its songs. Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy appear in the one hundred five minute film, an American production Robert Z. Leonard finished in 1940.