The 1926silent Broken Hearts, notable for capturing New York through the eyes ofa new immigrant, was framed by sound sequences in 1932 and the newpackage called The Unfortunate Bride. A granddaughter's query concerningwhether to follow her heart or the teachings of the Torah provokes thistale: A writer, forced to emigrate from Russia, and believing his wifein the old country has died, takes a new wife, only to be shunned by herclass-conscious family whose eyes are on another prize:"Allrightnik Row." Apart from the film's stark naturalism ofthe slums, a common theme of immigrant life (and movies)-desertion-istreated in the twists of plot that send our hero back to Russia, leavinghis wife alone and pregnant. Interestingly, the earlier film's happyending is supplanted in the newer version by a more cautionaryconclusion. Maurice Schwartz directed and plays the lead, alongsidefellow stars from the Yiddish Art Theater, and Hollywood's Lila Lee asthe new wife.