Seven Days' Leave 1930 - Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer

Seven Days' Leave 1930. Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer Written by J.M Barrie (Peter Pan). A young Canadian soldier (Gary Cooper) is wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, a YMCA worker tells him that a Scottish widow (Beryl Mercer) 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.