Hearts in Bondage (1936)

★ 4.4 1h 12m IMDb
Drama History

Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his native Virginia while Kenneth remains on duty as a Northern officer. Kenneth's uncle, John Ericsson, designs a new kind of ship, an ironclad he calls the Monitor. Eventually the war pits Kenneth, on board the Monitor, against his friend Raymond, serving aboard the South's own ironclad, the Merrimac (as it is called here). A naval battle ensues, one that will go down in history.

Hearts in Bondage

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Cast

James Dunn
James Dunn as Lt. Kenneth Reynolds Died 1967 · New York City, New York, USA James Dunn worked on the stage, in vaudeville and as an extra in silent movies before he was signed by Fox in 1931. His first movie with Fox was 1931's Sob Sister (1931). While at Fox, he appeared wit...
Mae Clarke
Mae Clarke as Constance Jordan Died 1992 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Mae Clarke (born Violet Mary Klotz; August 16, 1910 – April 29, 1992) was an American stage, screen, and television actress. She is best known for being the recipient of Jimmy Cagney's half grapefruit...
David Manners
David Manners as Raymond Jordan Died 1998 · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada David Joseph Manners (born Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom, April 30, 1900 – December 23, 1998) was a Canadian-American actor who played John Harker in Todd Browning's 1931 horror classic Dracula. The fol...
Charlotte Henry
Charlotte Henry as Julie Buchanan Died 1980 · Brooklyn, New York, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charlotte Henry (March 3, 1914 – April 11, 1980) was an American actress, who starred in the Frank Buck serial Jungle Menace. Description above from the Wikipe...
Henry B. Walthall
Henry B. Walthall as Capt. Buchanan Died 1936 · Shelby County, Alabama, USA ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W.
Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber as Capt. John Ericsson Died 1949 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Fritz Reuter Leiber Sr. was an American actor. A Shakespearean actor on stage, he also had a successful career in film.
Director Lew Ayres
Cast James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Charlotte Henry, Henry B. Walthall, Fritz Leiber, George Irving, Smiley Burnette

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 6/10 Jun 19, 2022
This is quite a fun tale of the first "Ironclad" naval battles of the American Civil War that pitched the "Merrimac" against the "Monitor". Despite the fact that much of it looks like it was filmed in a large swimming pool, the effects are actually quite good - lots of black smoke and painted ping-pong balls provide for some entertaining sea battle effects. There is a parallel melodrama of brothers forced to take sides, and young love plays in here somewhere too, but that's all just run-of-the mill "humanity" added into what is essentially a boys-own story of sea battles and clever inventions.

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