The Silver Cord

Dave Phelps is a young man trained as an architect. He had been working in Heidelberg. A post comes up for him in New York. His wife Christina is a research biologist. She is to start at an institute as well. The two return to the United States. Before going on they visit Dave’s mother. Mrs Phelps lives in the country. Dave’s brother Robert is in the house. Robert’s fiancee Hester is there too. The mother ignores her daughter in law. She gives all her attention to her son. She puts Dave in the room next to hers. She accuses Christina of taking her son away. She works on breaking up Robert and Hester as well. The film shows what the mother is doing plainly. Irene Dunne and Joel McCrea appear in the seventy four minute film, an American production John Cromwell finished in 1933.