A Free Soul

“She wasn't a divorcee but she believed that strangers could kiss!”

Jan Ashe (Norma Shearer) is the daughter of a brilliant, hard-drinking defense attorney, Stephen (Lionel Barrymore), and she does as she pleases. Her father has just won an acquittal for the gambler Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable), and she is drawn to him, while Dwight Winthrop (Leslie Howard) waits in the background. Clarence Brown builds toward Barrymore's courtroom monologue, the speech that won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.