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Format: VHS
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
62 min. |
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Movie Description
This music-score-enhanced silent film follows the circuitous path of a woman's love life from an older abusive husband to an affair with a young painter to her present marriage to a sweet young man who knows nothing of her past. Hitchcock uses crafted fades and close-ups, as well as dolly shots that anticipate the modern zoom lens. EASY VIRTUE is based on the play by Noel Coward, with a script by Hitchcock's longtime collaborator, Eliot Stannard.
Synopsis
A young woman, Larita Filton (Isabel Jeans), becomes "the notorious Mrs. Filton" when a young artist in love with her commits suicide and she ends up divorcing her drunkard husband. Life looks like it is taking a turn for the better when she meets John Whittaker in the south of France. John, the scion of a respectable family, marries her without being aware of her past, but his mother soon learns of Larita's tainted background and schemes to break up the marriage and uncover Larita's disreputable secrets. An adaptation of the successful play by Noel Coward, this was Hitchcock's last film for Gainsborough Studios before his move to British International Pictures.
Film Notes
Theatrical release: August 1927.
Hitch onscreen: Hitchcock strolls past a tennis court carrying a walking stick.
EASY VIRTUE was based on the play by Noel Coward.
Graham Cutts was originally announced as director of EASY VIRTUE.
Hitchcock designed props and used mirrors and doubles to create scenes for EASY VIRTUE, which were innovative techniques at the time.
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