MR SKEFFINGTON (1944)

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Plot

Beautiful, but spoiled, Fanny has married Jewish stockbroker Job to save crooked brother Trippy's arse and for his money, but she soon denies Job access to the marital bed. Trippy disappears to get himself killed in WW1 and Fanny eventually divorces Job, who also goes to Europe, with their daughter. Years later; the daughter has returned to the USA but Job has been whisked off to a concentration camp, where he goes blind. Fanny catches diphtheria and loses her beauty while her daughter runs off with her lover. Meanwhile blind hubbie is returning to the USA and she realises that she loves him, and he her, after all......then everyone gets their hankies out and has a good cry in this superior weepie.