Easy Virtue
Easy Virtue ★★½ 1927
Hitchcock directs this adaptation of a Noel Coward play as a social melodrama. Larita is an unhappily married socialite with a lover. When her husband discovers her infideltiy they divorce and she is marked as a woman of loose morals. Her reputation is not enhanced by her marriage to a younger man whose family diapproves. 79m/B VHS, DVD . GB Isabel Jeans, Ian Hunter, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Robin Irvine, Violet Fare-brother; D: Alfred Hitchcock.
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