Hearts in Bondage

Hearts in Bondage is a 1936 American war film directed by Lew Ayres. It was the only film that Ayres directed.

Hearts in Bondage
Directed byLew Ayres
Produced byNat Levine
Written byKarl Brown
Olive Cooper
Wallace MacDonald
Bernard Schubert
StarringJames Dunn
Mae Clarke
David Manners
Music byHugo Riesenfeld
CinematographyJack A. Marta
Ernest Miller
Edited byRalph Dixon
Production
company
Republic Pictures
Distributed byRepublic Pictures
Release date
  • May 26, 1936 (1936-05-26)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

This 1936 film is in black and white and is a drama based on events in the American Civil War and starts with citizens choosing loyalty to the Confederate States of America or to the Union in the first days of the crisis. Early scenes show the burning of the USS Merrimack by its Union crew to prevent it from falling into Confederate hands. However, the Merrimack, which had been burnt down to the waterline, was later rebuilt by the Confederacy, as an ironclad, and was renamed the CSS Virginia.

The film shows that, during the war, the Union built its own ironclad, the USS Monitor. When the Virginia emerged on its sortie in the Battle of Hampton Roads it inflicted major damage on the Union fleet in the harbor. Subsequent scenes show the arrival of the Monitor and its battle with the Virginia.

Scenes of the battle are dramatic and were done with models fabricated under the direction of Bud Thackery.

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