Easy Virtue

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Easy Virtue
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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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Cast

Isabel Jeans — Larita Filton
Franklin Dyall — Aubrey Filton
Eric Bransby Williams — Claude Robson
Robin Irvine — John Whittaker
Violet Farebrother — Mrs. Whittaker
Frank Elliott — Colonel Whittaker
Dacia Deane — Marion Whittaker
Dorothy Boyd — Hilda Whittaker

[edit] 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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Films directed by Alfred Hitchcock

1920s: Number 13 • The Pleasure Garden • The Mountain Eagle • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog • Downhill • Easy Virtue • The Ring • The Farmer's Wife • Champagne • The Manxman • Blackmail • 1930s: Juno and the Paycock • Murder! • Elstree Calling • The Skin Game • Mary • Number Seventeen • Rich and Strange • Waltzes from Vienna • The Man Who Knew Too Much • The 39 Steps • Secret Agent • Sabotage • Young and Innocent • The Lady Vanishes • Jamaica Inn • 1940s: Rebecca • Foreign Correspondent • Mr. & Mrs. Smith • Suspicion • Saboteur • Shadow of a Doubt • Lifeboat • Aventure Malgache • Bon Voyage • Spellbound • Notorious • The Paradine Case • Rope • Under Capricorn • 1950s: Stage Fright • Strangers on a Train • I Confess • Dial M for Murder • Rear Window • To Catch a Thief • The Trouble with Harry • The Man Who Knew Too Much • The Wrong Man • Vertigo • North by Northwest • 1960s: Psycho • The Birds • Marnie • Torn Curtain • Topaz • 1970s: Frenzy • Family Plot