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The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...
Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
A homeless orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy man against his wife wishes. When the man dies, the girl endures endless humiliations under the wife's harsh grip, so she finds solace with mysterious old maid who lives near by.
A 1941 film.