Easy Virtue (1928 film)

Infobox Film
name = Easy Virtue


caption = DVD Cover
director = Alfred Hitchcock
producer = Uncredited:
Michael Balcon
writer = Play:
Noel Coward
Scenario:
Eliot Stannard
starring = Isabel Jeans
Franklin Dyall
Eric Bransby Williams
Ian Hunter
music =
cinematography = Claude L. McDonnell
editing = Ivor Montagu
distributor = flagicon|United Kingdom Wardour Films
flagicon|USA Sono Art
released = flagicon|United Kingdom March 5, 1928
flagicon|USA 1928
runtime = min. 79 min.
country = UK
language = Silent film
English intertitles
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:15200
imdb_id = 0017843

"Easy Virtue" is a 1928 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on a play by Noel Coward.

ynopsis

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.