Hearts in Bondage

Release Date: 1936-05-26

Overview: Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his native Virginia while Kenneth remains on duty as a Northern officer. Kenneth's uncle, John Ericsson, designs a new kind of ship, an ironclad he calls the Monitor. Eventually the war pits Kenneth, on board the Monitor, against his friend Raymond, serving aboard the South's own ironclad, the Merrimac (as it is called here). A naval battle ensues, one that will go down in history.

Rating: 4.4 / 10

Cast

James Dunn

as Lt. Kenneth Reynolds

Mae Clarke

as Constance Jordan

David Manners

as Raymond Jordan

Charlotte Henry

as Julie Buchanan

Henry B. Walthall

as Capt. Buchanan

Crew

Lew Ayres - Director
Olive Cooper - Screenplay
Bernard Schubert - Screenplay

Reviews

CinemaSerf:

This is quite a fun tale of the first "Ironclad" naval battles of the American Civil War that pitched the "Merrimac" against the "Monitor". Despite the fact that much of it looks like it was filmed in...