The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)

Directors

Bruce Manning, Jean Renoir

Cast

Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Treacher

The story

A young idealistic schoolteacher named Ruth Kirke is transporting a group of war orphans from South China to Calcutta when their steamship Tollare is torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific. Along with sailor Timothy Blake, they are the only passengers to survive the enemy attack. They are picked up by the steamship Westonia and taken to San Francisco, where immigration officials inform Ruth that the orphans will be held until a $500 bond ($ today) is posted for each child.

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