I miss juice boxes.

Off to the Epic Center to play some hockey...I'm in the ole net tonight, been a while, almost 7 months since I even thought about playing goalie...should be interesting.

Rigoletto, set in Depression-era America, stars Joseph Paur as Ribaldi/Rigoletto and Ivey Lloyd as Bonnie, a young girl who is gifted with a beautiful singing voice.

When a mysterious man arrives in town and buys the mortgage on Bonnie's house, threatening her family with eviction, Bonnie agrees to work for him as a servant in exchange for allowing her family to keep their home. At first, Bonnie believes the man, Ribaldi, is a monster due to his physical deformity (his face is badly scarred and he is forced to use a cane) and his cold, angry demeanor. When Bonnie finds Ribaldi giving a beautiful young woman music lessons, she realizes that he is a gifted musician and a kind, misunderstood person. Meanwhile, many townspeople are being evicted from their homes, and suspect the mysterious Ribaldi of ruining their lives. The angry villagers begin to spread rumors about Ribaldi and believe that he is a monster. The village children, on the other hand, are drawn to Ribaldi, and he delights in playing with them and giving them presents.

Throughout the film, the sick and handicapped people of the village are miraculously healed, and farmers receive large amounts of money from an anonymous donor. Porter, a young boy with a stutter, is healed after visiting Ribaldi and looking into his "magic mirror", which Ribaldi claims will help him with his problems.

The townspeople threaten to keep Bonnie from singing in the state singing competition unless she stops visiting Ribaldi. Bonnie tells Ribaldi she will not leave him, but he tells her that to abandon the competition would waste all their hard work, and insists that Bonnie forget about him and follow her dream. Ribaldi's butler, Hans, on hearing how devoted to Ribaldi Bonnie is, asks his master if she is "the one". Ribaldi confesses that he believes she is.

In the climax of the film, while Bonnie is singing in the competition, Ribaldi is visited by Georgie, a young girl from the village, and he offers to walk her home. Along the way, Georgie falls into a river, and Ribaldi saves her. When he tries to bring the unconscious girl into town, he is attacked by the townspeople, who believe he has harmed Georgie. Afterward they destroy Ribaldi's home in search of evidence that he has been taking their homes and land. Instead of this proof, however, they find lists of people Ribaldi has helped by secretly paying for their medical treatments and paying off their farms.

Bonnie wins the singing competition, and returns home to find that Ribaldi has died from the injuries incured by the townspeople.