A group of affluent young men intend to buy a hunting site,
Belhorizon. Carl is the first to arrive and finds a desolate
boarding house. The inhabitants of this strange place include
Esme, the daughter, who wastes no time in seducing Carl. A
promise of marriage that is not fulfilled soon arouses Esme's
violence...
American film comedy had its heyday in the 1920s and '30s, but it remains an important genre and has given American cinema some of its enduring classics.