Bitter Sweet (1940) "Black Manta"

Bitter Sweet (1940) "Black Manta"Songbirds and lovebirds Carl and Sarah Linden (Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald) happily starve in a 19th century Viennese garret, awaiting the day the world will cheer Carl's operetta. But a lecherous baron (George Sanders, oozing caddishness from every pore) with an eye for Sarah and a taste for duels threatens to turn their hope to tragedy. I'll See You Again, If You Could Only Come with Me, What Is Love? Noel Coward wrote some of his subtlest,

Broderick Crawford gives a psychotic fervor to his portrayal

So the school boots independent-minded Dinah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) back to Baltimore

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but the war years have taken a toll on Terry's health

but Mildred is a woman of alluring contradictions

"Be impersonal and aloof

the gangster who killed his brother and who is just as determined to kill Casey

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is able to let him go

his beloved Angela (de Havilland)

the settlers declare war

Gloria Talbott (All That Heaven Allows) plays the love interest who urges Tully to turn away from crime