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Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue

Can she be blamed for a past she didn't create?

19285.31h 10m

Overview

Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Eliot Stannard, Noël Coward
Produced by Michael Balcon
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Top Cast

Isabel Jeans

Isabel Jeans

Larita Filton

Franklin Dyall

Franklin Dyall

Aubrey Filton

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Eric Bransby Williams

Claude Robson - the co-respondent

Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter

The Plaintiff's Counsel

Robin Irvine

Robin Irvine

John Whittaker

Violet Farebrother

Violet Farebrother

Mrs. Whittaker

Frank Elliott

Frank Elliott

Colonel Whittaker

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Dacia Deane

Marion Whittaker

Dorothy Boyd

Dorothy Boyd

Hilda Whittaker

Enid Stamp-Taylor

Enid Stamp-Taylor

Sarah

Themes & Keywords

bad mother-in-lawbased on play or musicalfrench rivierablack and whitesilent film

About Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue is a romance, drama film released in 1928 exploring themes of bad mother-in-law, based on play or musical, french riviera, black and white, silent film. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it stars Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams. Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.

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