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Easy Virtue

  • 19271927
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 20m
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5.5/10
2.9K
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Easy Virtue (1927)
RomanceThriller
A recently divorced woman hides her scandalous past from her new husband and his family.A recently divorced woman hides her scandalous past from her new husband and his family.A recently divorced woman hides her scandalous past from her new husband and his family.
IMDb RATING
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2.9K
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    • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Noël Coward(adapted from the play by)
    • Eliot Stannard(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Isabel Jeans
    • Franklin Dyall
    • Eric Bransby Williams
    • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Noël Coward(adapted from the play by)
    • Eliot Stannard(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Isabel Jeans
    • Franklin Dyall
    • Eric Bransby Williams
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 43User reviews
    • 28Critic reviews
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    Robin Irvine and Isabel Jeans in Easy Virtue (1927)
    Isabel Jeans in Easy Virtue (1927)
    Robin Irvine and Isabel Jeans in Easy Virtue (1927)
    Robin Irvine and Isabel Jeans in Easy Virtue (1927)
    Easy Virtue (1927)
    Easy Virtue (1927)
    Easy Virtue (1927)
    Isabel Jeans in Easy Virtue (1927)
    Ian Hunter and Isabel Jeans in Easy Virtue (1927)
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    Robin Irvine and Isabel Jeans in Easy Virtue (1927)
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    Isabel Jeans
    Isabel Jeans
    • Larita Filton
    Franklin Dyall
    Franklin Dyall
    • Aubrey Filton
    Eric Bransby Williams
    • Claude Robson
    Ian Hunter
    Ian Hunter
    • Mr. Greene
    Robin Irvine
    Robin Irvine
    • John Whittaker
    Violet Farebrother
    Violet Farebrother
    • Mrs. Whittaker
    Frank Elliott
    Frank Elliott
    • Colonel Whittaker
    Dacia Deane
    • Marion Whittaker
    Dorothy Boyd
    • Hilda Whittaker
    Enid Stamp-Taylor
    Enid Stamp-Taylor
    • Sarah
    • (as Enid Stamp Taylor)
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock
    • Man with Stick Near Tennis Court
    • (uncredited)
    Benita Hume
    Benita Hume
    • Telephone Receptionist
    • (uncredited)
    Ben Webster
    Ben Webster
    • Justice Halstead
    • (uncredited)
      • Alfred Hitchcock
      • Noël Coward(adapted from the play by)
      • Eliot Stannard(scenario)
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    • Trivia
      Alfred Hitchcock: Walking past a tennis court carrying a walking stick.
    • Goofs
      While sitting with Larita after she is hit with the tennis ball, John's sitting position changes between shots.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Larita Filton: [to news photographers] Shoot! There's nothing left to kill.

    • Alternate versions
      In 2004, the Turner Classic Movies channel broadcast a version digitally remastered by Hypercube LLC for the National Film Museum Incorporated. It has a new piano score composed and performed by Douglas M. Protsik and runs 89 minutes.
    • Connections
      Featured in Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)

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    5/10
    Sowing the seeds of later Hitchcock masterpieces
    While many have dismissed this silent film of Hitchcock as an insignificant work, I found this film anticipates the virtues of the later works of the director. Hitchcock often relied on strong stories/scripts/plays whether it was du Maurier or Ernest Lehman or Ben Hecht or Anthony Shaffer to make his cinema tick. In this film it was the brilliant playwright Noel Coward. Just as "Frenzy" (script of Shaffer) ends with the words "…you are missing your tie," the final words of "Easy Virtue" are the explosive "Shoot! There is nothing left to kill." The word "shoot" refers to the cameras of the paparazzi not guns.

    Visually, Hitchcock would revert to the same scene in "Notorious", in "Torn Curtain" and even as a weapon of defense in "Rear Window." The underscoring of the irony of final scenes of Hitchcock films are interesting to note. Coward and Hitchcock were really sensitizing the viewer on the social perceptions of marriage and divorce. Coward and Hitchcock seem to ask us the connection between slandered reputation and "easy virtue." In "Blackmail" the jester (the painting) seemed to scoff at the so-called justice meted out by the law keepers in final sequence.

    Visually the most poignant shot (repeated twice) in the film is the shot of the judge's wig from above his head as he looks up. The interiors of the sets seem remarkably similar to scenes from Russian (Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible") and German expressionist cinema. Who should be credited more for what the film offers—Coward or Hitchcock. Probably both, in equal measure.
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    • Release date
      • June 1928 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • French Riviera, Alpes-Maritimes, France
    • Production company
      • Gainsborough Pictures
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    • 1 hour 20 minutes
      • Silent

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