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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })H.M. Pulham, Esq. is a 1941 film directed by King Vidor, starring Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, and Charles Coburn.H.M. Pulham, Esq., aka Harry Pulham (Young), is a middle-aged businessman living in Boston. Some of his old Harvard buddies contact him about their 25th anniversary class reunion. At the same time, Harry gets a call from his old girlfriend, Marvin Myles (Lamarr). A good two decades ago Harry broke up with Marvin, a career woman in the advertising business, and settled down to a more conventional married life with wife Kay (Hussey). The marriage has gone stale, though, and Harry's reflective mood and the arrival of Marvin throws him into a full-blown mid-life crisis. A series of flashbacks then narrate Harry's life, his romance with Marvin, and how he came to marry Kay instead.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })H.M. Pulham, Esq. was co-written by Vidor and his wife Elizabeth, based on the novel by John P. Marquand.
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 Bittersweet Ending: Harry and Marvin decide not to rekindle their affair, saying "We can't go back." But Kay, who has finally realized that Harry is going through an emotional crisis, finds him outside the office and whisks him away on the impromptu road trip that he asked her to take.
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 Establishing Character Moment: Harry is shown as a borderline obsessive-compulsive who counts his steps on the way to work and always takes the exact same number of peanuts to throw to the squirrels in the park.
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