ST. JAMES THEATRE
With the American border of a hundred and fifty years ago as its setting, “Rachel and the Stranger,” now at the St. James Theatre, co-stars Loretta Young, William Holden and Robert Mitchum in a story of romance and adventure. Holden portrays an Ohio frontiersman who, when his wife dies, decides to marry again for his son’s sake. Matrimonial resources at the nearest frontier settlement are limited, but he purchases a pretty young bondwoman (Miss Young) for twenty-two dollars, marries her, and brings her to his lonely cabin. The boy, suspicious and resentful of the intruder, spurns her efforts to be friendly, and even her new husband largely ignores hex'. But this situation changes when a roving hunter (Mitchum) an old friend of Holden’s, drops by for his semi-annual visit. His attentions awaken the bondwoman’s unsuspected talents, and he quickly becomes interested in her to.the point of offering to buy her from her husband. The ensuing crisis, complicated by an Indian attack on the cabin, spectacularly resolves the situation.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 103, 14 February 1950, Page 5
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173ST. JAMES THEATRE Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 103, 14 February 1950, Page 5
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