Susan Slade

Susan Slade is a 1961 American Technicolor drama film released by Warner Bros., about a welltodo teenage girl who secretly has a baby out of wedlock. The film was directed by Delmer Daves and stars Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens. The screenplay was based upon the 1961 novel The Sin of Susan Slade 1961 by Doris Hume.

Susan waits eagerly for letters from Conn, but he does not write and the one time he calls, she is out and misses the call. She soon discovers that she is pregnant with Conns child, but keeps this a secret while urgently trying to contact Conn. Her parents attempt to take her mind off Conn by encouraging her to date the Corbetts son Wells Bert Convy and buying her a horse, which is kept at the stables run by Hoyt Brecker Troy Donahue. Hoyt is shunned by the local community because his father, an executive with Corbetts company, was convicted for stealing from his employer, and later committed suicide in his prison cell. Compared to Susans family and friends, Hoyt is relatively poor and lives on what he can earn from his stables which have lost many customers due to the scandal involving his father and as a struggling writer. Despite all this, Hoyt and Susan gradually become friends and he confides in her his determination to not run away in the face of local disapproval, but to instead become a renowned writer and redeem his family name.Susan finally receives a telephone call from Conns father, whom she has never met, informing her that Conn had told his parents of his love for her and that Conn died climbing Mount McKinley. Susan has a breakdown and tries to drown herself in the bay, but is rescued by Hoyt. In her delirium, she lets slip to her mother that she is pregnant by Conn. Roger and Leah decide the only way to avoid disgrace and protect Susan is for the family to move to remote Guatemala, where Roger has been offered a twoyear job running a mine. Susan can then finish her pregnancy and have her baby in secret, and Leah and Roger will pass it off as their own. All goes according to plan, but after the baby named Rogey after Susans father is born, Susan has difficulty setting aside her maternal feelings and treating the baby as her brother rather than her son. ........

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