Seven Days Leave
Director Richard Wallace 80 mins (1930)
Gary Cooper – Kenneth Downey
A young Canadian soldier is wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, a YMCA worker tells him that a Scottish widow without a son believes that he is in fact her son. To comfort the widow, the soldier agrees to pretend to be her Scottish son. After fighting with British sailors who make fun of his kilts, he wants to desert, but moved by his mother's patriotism he returns to the war front and is killed in battle. Later the proud Scottish widow receives the medals that her "son" was awarded for bravery.
Also starring Beryl Mercer, Daisy Belmore, Nora Cecil and Tempe Pigott
Based on the play The Old Lady Shows Her Medals by J.M. Barrie.