The Love Mart
MovieTitle | The Love Mart |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Dec 18, 1927 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | George Fitzmaurice |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | First National Pictures |
Run time | 80 min. |
Victor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a barber shop as the result of winning a duel, and decides to settle down to a life as a barber. He meets a beautiful young woman and pursues her, but she dismisses his attentions because she thinks he is just a barber. Also pursuing the woman is the evil Capt. Remy, whom she also brushes off. He, however, doesn't take rejection so lightly, and forges papers "proving" that the girl is a "quadroon"--part black, which means that she can be sold as a slave. She is sold to Capt. Remy, and when Victor hears of it, he determines to rescue her.