Those Were the Days (1940)

 

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Title: Those Were the Days (1940)
Medium: Movie
Actress: Bonita Granville

Description: At the 35th wedding anniversary party of Petey Simmons (William Holden) and Martha Scroggs (Granville), old Judge Scroggs relates the story of the couple's rocky romance in the good ole days at Old Siwash, Petey’s alma mater, circa 1904.

Towards the end of the film, Martha refuses to speak to Petey because she believes his recent romantic ardor was part of a plan to get her father to find him not guilty of a series of high-spirited college pranks, which, in fact, it was - but Petey has fallen for the judge's daughter hook, line and sinker, so he decides to take decisive action.

At the 61-minute mark (no commercials), we get a full-screen close-up of Martha's gagged face - an elastic book strap securing a handkerchief over her mouth. As the camera pulls back, we see her wrists and arms lashed to the arms of a chair with sash cords and more rope binds her waist and thighs her seat. Over the next five minutes, Petey plights his troth, alternately removing and snapping the gag back in place when Martha's side of the conversation becomes belligerent. Finally the two lovebirds patch up their quarrel and Petey starts to untie her, but he’s done such a good job that when the Judge enters the living room he finds his darling daughter still roped to the chair with the gag hanging around her neck. Calling the local constable, he has Petey thrown in jail; since Martha can’t her father he’s misunderstood the transpiring events, she throws a rock through the courthouse window and is placed in a jail cell next to Petey’s, where the two love birds are shown holding hands through the bars.