Behind City Lights (1945)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance
Release: 1945-09-10
Director: John English
Writers: Richard Weil , Gertrude Walker
Language: English
Stars: Lynne Roberts , Peter Cookson , Jerome Cowan , Esther Dale , William Terry , Victor Kilian , Moroni Olsen , William Forrest , Emmett Vogan , Joseph J. Greene
Runtime: 68 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Behind City Lights (United States of America) , Behind City Lights , La amarga ilusión (Mexico)
Plot: Jean Lowell, an unsophisticated girl who has spent all of her life on a farm, is about to marry Ben Coleman, a neighboring young farmer, but an automobile crash interrupts the wedding. Crash-victims Lance Marlowe and Perry Borden )are carried in the house and the wedding is postponed. At first sight of Lance, Jean falls in love with him. In a few days, fully recovered, the two men return to New York. Ben releases Jean from their engagement and Aunt Sarah gives the girl her life savings to make possible a trip to New York, New York. Arriving in the big city, Jean stays at a fine hotel, acquires a fine wardrobe and, with Lance, visits all the places she has read about. She is blissfully happy , completely unaware that Perry and Lance are notorious jewel thieves. Trapped through an uncut diamond he has given Jean, to be set in an engagement ring, Lance and Perry, in attempting to elude the police, wreck their car and are killed. Jean, too proud to go home, remains in New York and obtains work. Ben, suspecting that something is wrong, seeks her out, and, together, they return to the farm.
IMDB:tt0037532