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15 May 1952 (USA) morePlot:
Paula is a rather flighty, self-centered woman. Driving at night, she injures a child in a hit and run accident... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Credited cast)| Loretta Young | ... | Paula Rogers | |
| Kent Smith | ... | John Rogers | |
| Alexander Knox | ... | Dr. Clifford Frazer | |
| Tommy Rettig | ... | David Larson | |
| Otto Hulett | ... | Lieutenant Dargen | |
| Will Wright | ... | Raymond Bascom | |
| Raymond Greenleaf | ... | President Russell |
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Paula (1952)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Interesting but too overly dramatic film about a wife (Loretta Young) who suffers her second miscarriage and is about to give up on life when another tragedy strikes. While speeding to a meeting, she runs over a seven year old boy who becomes deaf to the wreck. Another man takes the boy to the hospital so the police don't know who hit him but the woman feels so guilty that she adopts the boy so that she can try and teach him to speak again. However, the police are still on the hunt for who hit the boy and the boy eventually remembers who it was. This film could have been a lot better had they toned down the crying moments. By crying moments I mean that this is one of those films that tries to make you cry every five minutes, which becomes quite annoying after a while. The scene where Young learns she lost her second baby is heartbreaking but other moments don't come off as good. Young is very good in her role, which requires her to be a snob, a heartbroken mother and a woman trying to do what's right with both the child and the law. Kent Smith is also very good as her husband who at first doesn't want to take in a mute child. The film loses some steam in the final act as things turn very stupid during one scene where the man who drove the kid to the hospital shows up at Young's house and starts a fight. The ending is predictable but touching.