In The Prime Of Life (Ekspeditricen)

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Utterly useless upper class twit is rocked out his socks when he's blocked by well-stacked knockers. But after three months of rocking with no sock she gets knocked up (“loved not wisely but too well”), and has to start wearing the biggest hats she can find. And so begins a familiar tale, that goes by many names:

  • Ungdom og letsind (Youth and Frivolity)
  • Ungdomsynd (Sins of Youth)
  • Dyrköpt lycka eller När ungdomsblodet sjuder (Costly Joy or When the blood of youth boils)
  • Ödets underliga väga (The strange path of fate)
  • Offer för sin lidelse (Victim of his passion)
Earlier, a similar tale went by a much less fearsome name: An Unexpected Guest (1909).

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An Unexpected Guest

From Lubin ad:

A young doctor had a love affair with one of the hospital nurses. Through machinations of his father the young doctor is made to believe that the nurse has given him up...

From The Moving Picture World (August 28, 1909) review:

A Lubin which seems to be somewhat uncalled for...The photography is good and to a certain extent the picture may interest those who are thoughtless, but there is a certain degree of delicacy which should be observed about such matters that is plainly violated here. The picture serves no useful purpose. It is not instructive and cannot be called entertaining. The reason for its existence is not plain and the silent drama would be improved if the picture was never shown again.

So here it is, shown again, over 100 years later, still of interest to the thoughtless.

Goof: Though we see the unexpected guest two years after its conception was hinted at, making it at least 15 months old, it appears to be still an infant!