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Hoodman Blind
UNITED STATES · 1923

Hoodman Blind

John Ford
family secrets mistaken identity jealousy and manipulation infidelity small-town scandal
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Synopsis

John Linden, a victim of wanderlust, jumbles up his life and that of his two daughters. One is a daughter by marriage, the other an offspring of Jessie Walton, a young woman of the village. Noting the resemblance of the two, unscrupulous Mark Lezzard, the sea town's only lawyer, arouses the jealousy of the first daughter's husband Jack Yeulette, the skipper of a fishing smack, hoping to gain her f

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