Triumph story
A woman comes between a phony medical missionary and his partner. Directed by: Harvey Hart. Story by: Arthur A. Ross.
20 total · 12 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| charitable volunteering | major | The story concerns four medical missionaries in rural colonial India. |
| coping with a failing marriage | major | Thomas and Mary had a dysfunctional marriage as they were clearly at each others' throats. Mary spitefully lead Thomas on only to tell him she wasn't sure (implying she was quite sure) whether she still loved him. |
| disintegrating romantic relationship | major | Thomas and Mary's marriage was on the outs, perhaps having something to do with that they'd never had children. |
| female-female rivalry | major | Mary resented Lucy and let her know so. |
| husband and wife | major | The story features two married couples. There were several discussions that related to the constitution of marriages in general. Thomas and Mary resented one and other due (in some degree at least) to their inability to have children. John and Lucy have a seemingly blissful union but Lucy ended up running away with Thomas. In the end Thomas killed Mary and John killed Lucy. |
| romantic infidelity | major | Brother Thomas saved Lucy, a married woman, by murdering his own wife and she ran off with him. |
| romantic jealousy | major | Mary was jealous of Lucy. Brother Thomas accused Mary of hating Lucy because Lucy was young. |
| romantic love | major | John and Lucy seemed to be passionately in love. This was contrasted with Thomas and Mary's loveless marriage. |
| spouse murder | major | In the end Thomas killed Mary and John killed Lucy. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | John ended up knowingly (because he had seen Mary's body in the coffin) shooting Lucy because she had run off with John. |