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The Road to Yesterday
UNITED STATES · 1925

The Road to Yesterday

Cecil B. DeMille
reincarnation past lives marital conflict historical injustice supernatural romance
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Synopsis

Malena's apparent frigidity toward her husband Kenneth is a result of injustice done in an earlier incarnation when he was a knight and she was a gypsy headed for burning at the stake. This becomes evident when their unconscious minds travel back from a train wreck in the American plains to Elizabethan England.

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