Transgression (1931)

Director:

Herbert Brenon

Writers:

Kate Jordan (play)
Elizabeth Meehan (adaptation)

Release Date:

27 June 1931 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

When an English husband goes off to India for a year-long business trip, he also sends his wife to live...

Plot Keywords:

Letter | Spain | Marriage | Paris France | Repentance

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Kay Francis	...	Elsie Maury
Paul Cavanagh	...	Robert Maury
Ricardo Cortez	...	Don Arturo de Borgus
Nance O'Neil	...	Honora 'Nora' Maury
Doris Lloyd	...	Paula Vrain
John St. Polis	...	Serafin, Arturo's Butler
Ruth Weston	...	Viscountess de Longueval
Adrienne D'Ambricourt	...	Julie, Elsie's French Maid
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Agostino Borgato	...	Carlos (scenes deleted)

Also Known As:

Around the Corner (USA) (working title)
The Next Corner (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

70 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Certification:

USA:Passed

Company:

RKO Radio Pictures

Movie Connections:

Version of The Next Corner (1924)

Kay Francis is good but ...

this movie is a clunker. Francis plays a silly British wife who goes to Paris while her husband goes off to India. She falls under the spell of an unscrupulous Latin Lover (Ricardo Cortez) and ends up involved in his murder and blackmail. Francis looks great (as always) and does a good acting job, starting out as the silly wifey and becoming a more sophisticated (she thinks) woman of the world. Paul Kavanaugh, Doris Lloyd, and Nance O'Neill (as the evil sister-in-law) are good, too. The Paris beauty salon scene where Francis must decide on the shape of her eyebrows (she settles for "plaintive") is a hoot!