A Bill Of Divorcement (1940)

After 15 years in a mental asylum, a man (Adolphe Menjou) suddenly regains his sanity and returns to his home. But he finds things are quite different including a wife (Fay Bainter) who has divorced him and is getting married and a daughter (Maureen O'Hara) he barely knows. A remake of the 1932 film (notable for being Katharine Hepburn's film debut) by way of the 1921 play by Clemence Dane and directed by John Farrow (THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY). I wasn't a big fan of the 1932 version and this remake only accentuates the "icky" factor I felt the first time around. Self sacrifice can sometimes comes across as masochistic as it does here. Fortunately, the film allows Bainter's mother to not buckle under pressure and remain with a man she doesn't love and no longer knows and goes on to happiness with a new husband (Herbert Marshall) in spite of the guilt laid on her by Dame May Whitty's mean spirited religious aunt. With Patric Knowles and C. Aubrey Smith.