Goodbye, George story
A movie actress is visited by her ex-convict husband, whom she had assumed was dead. Directed by: Robert Stevens. Story by: William Fay.
25 total · 11 major · 14 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| agent and client | major | Harry was Lana's agent as well as her lover. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | Lana and Harry were well known to be an item by Hollywood insiders. They later tied the knot after a hasty engagement. |
| coping with being famous | major | The star actress Lana was being hounded a gossip columnist. |
| how to dispose of a corpse and get away with it | major | Harry hatched an elaborate plot to dispose of the body of his new bride's husband. |
| husband and wife | major | George and Lana. Later Harry and Lana. |
| ironic twist of fate | major | Lana and Harry had gone through much hardship and driven for days in order to shake off any pursuit and reach Harry's secluded cabin with the corpse, only to find that the snoops were already there and had staged a surprise party because, through an ironic twist of fate, their plans had been leaked somehow. |
| journalism | major | Lana and Harry were hounded by a gossip columnist named Haila French. |
| newlywed couple | major | Lana and Harry went on a honeymoon in Mexico. |
| romantic love | major | Lana and Harry were in love. |
| spouse murder | major | As alluded to in the title, Lana decided to part ways from her first husband, George, irrevocably by bashing his brains in with an award statuette. |