The House On 56Th Street

It isn't easy to cram almost 30 years of people's lives into 70 minutes, but this adaptation of Joseph Santley's novel almost does. Francis is a New York chorus girl in the early 1900s. She is in love with wealthy Raymond, and he with her, but she has also been seeing Halliday, an equally rich but aged stagedoor Johnny. She leaves Halliday for Raymond, who takes her to his home on 56th Street, a gorgeous town house just off Park Avenue. They are married, she has a daughter, and life is wonderful. Halliday comes back into the picture and threatens to commit suicide if she doesn't leave Raymond and her child and return to him. She goes to his apartment to attempt to ...