The Devil to Pay!

The Devil to Pay!

Infobox_Film | name = The Devil to Pay!
starring = Ronald Colman
Loretta Young
Florence Britton
Frederick Kerr
Myrna Loy
screenplay = Frederick Londale
Benjamin Glazer
director = George Fitzmaurice
producer = Samuel Goldwyn
distributor = United Artists
released = December 18, 1930
runtime = 97 min.
imdb_id = 0031572

"The Devil to Pay!" is a 1930 motion picture directed by George Fitzmaurice and written by Frederick Londale and Benjamin Glazer.

Plot synopsis [Frank, Sam, "Ronald Colman, A Bio-Bibliography", 1997, pg. 89]

After selling his belongings in East Africa, upper-class black sheep Willie Hale returns home to England, where he buys a dog and charms his rich father, Lord Leeland, into giving him more money. After reuniting with his old girlfriend, actress mary Crayle, he meets and falls in love with heiress Dorothy Hope. Dorothy then breaks her engagement ot Grand Duke Paul because she finds bankrupt Willie far more irresistibly charming. She also makes Willie agree to stop seeing Mary.

Mistakenly thinking he has breeched this agreement, Dorothy gives pays Willie off. He sends the money to destitute Paul, who gladly accepts it, showing Willie's true character to Dorothy. When they make up, Lord Leeland laughingly informs them that Dorothy's father is making them a wedding present of a sheep farm in Australia. At least if Willie goes broke this time, Dorothy's father is footing the bill, not him.

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