Christopher Strong

“Higher and higher! Faster and faster! She gave herself to the great god Speed, and tried to run away from the fires within her!”

Lady Cynthia Darrington (Katharine Hepburn), a young aviatrix with a taste for records and risk, meets Sir Christopher Strong (Colin Clive), a married politician well into middle age. His wife, Lady Elaine Strong (Billie Burke), and their daughter Monica (Helen Chandler) are already part of his world when Cynthia enters it. Dorothy Arzner places the two of them in the drawing rooms of the English aristocracy, close enough to touch and unable to.