Easy Virtue (1928 film)

Easy Virtue
Directed by	Alfred Hitchcock
Produced by	Uncredited: Michael Balcon
Written by	Play: Noel Coward Scenario: Eliot Stannard
Starring	Isabel Jeans Franklin Dyall Eric Bransby Williams Ian Hunter
Cinematography	Claude L. McDonnell
Editing by	Ivor Montagu
Distributed by	Wardour Films Sono Art
Release date(s)	March 5, 1928 1928
Running time	min. 79 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Silent film English intertitles
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Easy Virtue is a 1928 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on a play by Noel Coward.

Synopsis

The heroine Larita (Isabel Jeans) is married to a drunken brute. After he catches her almost being seduced by the artist who has been painting her picture, he brings suit for divorce. Adultery is the only ground for divorce in England at this time. Since she is now a disgraced woman of " easy virtue", Larita takes to the French Riviera where she ensnares a rich young suitor John Whittaker (Robin Irvine). She doesn't tell him about her checkered past and his family does not like her.

Cast

• Isabel Jeans — Larita Filton
• Franklin Dyall — Aubrey Filton
• Eric Bransby Williams — Claude Robson
• Ian Hunter — The plaintiff's counsel
• Robin Irvine — John Whittaker
• Violet Farebrother — Mrs. Whittaker
• Frank Elliott — Colonel Whittaker
• Dacia Deane — Marion Whittaker
• Dorothy Boyd — Hilda Whittaker
• Enid Stamp Taylor — Sarah (as Enid Stamp Taylor)
• Alfred Hitchcock — Man with stick near tennis court (uncredited)
• Benita Hume — Telephone receptionist (uncredited)

Trivia

• Alfred Hitchcock cameo: A signature occurrence in almost all of Hitchcock's films, he can be seen walking past a tennis court carrying a walking stick at about 15 minutes into the film.

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