Stolen Paradise (1940)
A Story of Adolescence
79 min
Robert Gordon, a sheltered 18-year-old youth reared in a Catholic school, believes he has a vocation for the priesthood. He is taken to live with his father in his palatial Florida home. There he falls in love with his step-sister, Patricia Morrow, ten years his senior. He runs away and joins the R.A.F. Shot down in battle, he is rescued and taken to a monastery where he renounces the world to study for the priesthood.
- Release date
- December 16, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Leon Janney as Richard 'Dick' Gordon
- Eleanor Hunt as Patricia Morrow
- Esther Muir as Mrs. Ellen Gordon
- Wilma Francis as Jerry Dean
- Doris Blaine as Mary Hodge
- Herbert Fisher as Father O'Malley
- Roy Tracy as Tom Trowbridge
- Fred Nielsey as Robert Gordon - Richard's Father
- Mamie Smith as Martha
- Charles Shaw as Larry Hodge
Crew
- Louis J. Gasnier · Director
- Robert Spafford · Writer
- Arthur Hoerl · Writer
- Lawrence Meade · Writer
- George A. Hirliman · Producer
- Nathaniel Shilkret · Composer
- Jack Greenhalgh · Cinematographer
- Robert O. Crandall · Editor