The Keeper of the Bees

A veteran discharged with a wound the doctors have given up on walks out of the hospital to die on his own terms and comes to a California beach house where an old bee-keeper and a child called Little Scout take him in, and the bees, the garden and a marriage of convenience do what the hospital could not. Sentimental by design, and honest about the part of the war that came home. Neil Hamilton is the veteran. Gene Stratton-Porter's novel, filmed for the second time, by Christy Cabanne on a Monogram budget, 1935.