Anna Lucasta.
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✎ Suggest a correctionA greedy and shiftless Polish family in a Pennsylvania mill town recall their banished daughter from her life on the Brooklyn waterfront and entice a respectable Polish farmer into marrying her.
The Lucasta family in Pennsylvania receives a message that a friend's son Rudolf is coming to town to find a wife. The family decides on trying to "sell" one of their own daughters, Anna, to Rudolf. Anna is attracted to a sailor named Danny Johnson, and when he tells her he has saved up enough money to go ashore, she believes he will ask her to marry him. When Anna is asked by the family to return home, she reluctantly does so, having no other plausible alternative.
The Lucasta family in Pennsylvania receives a message that a friend's son Rudolf is coming to town to find a wife. The family decides on trying to "sell" one of their own daughters, Anna, to Rudolf. Anna is attracted to a sailor named Danny Johnson, and when he tells her he has saved up enough money to go ashore, she believes he will ask her to marry him. When Anna is asked by the family to return home, she reluctantly does so, having no other plausible alternative.
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Copyright
19Aug49 L2499, renewed 3Sep76 R640653 Renewal claimant: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc Original author: Security Pictures, Inc © Security Pictures, Inc.; 19Aug49; LP2499.
Complete catalog record
ANNA LUCASTA. Security Pictures, Inc., Released through Columbia Pictures Corp., c1949. 86 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the play by Philip Yordan. Summary: A greedy and shiftless Polish family in a Pennsylvania mill town recall their banished daughter from her life on the Brooklyn waterfront and entice a respectable Polish farmer into marrying her. Credits: Producer, Philip Yordan; director, Irving Rapper; screenplay, Philip Yordan, Arthur Laurents; music score, David Diamond; music director, Morris Stoloff; film editor, Charles Nelson. Cast: Paulette Goddard, William Bishop, Oscar Homolka, John Ireland, Broderick Crawford. © Security Pictures, Inc.; 19Aug49; LP2499.
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