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East Lynne is a 1931 American pre-Code film version of Ellen Wood 's eponymous 1861 novel, which was adapted by Tom Barry and Bradley King and directed by Frank Lloyd.
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again. Frank Lloyd. Director. Mrs. Henry Wood.
A film version of East Lynne was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1931. The movie was adapted from the novel by Tom Barry and Bradley King and directed by Frank Lloyd. The film is a melodrama starring Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel and Cecilia Loftus. Only one copy of the film is known to exist.
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Characteristics. Moods. A Good Cry. Themes. Haunted By the Past. Keywords. deathbed, estrangement, mother, regret, death, terminal-illness, child, lover. Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for East Lynne (1931) - Frank Lloyd on AllMovie - Whenever a vaudeville comic of the 1920s wanted…
As pestilence, starvation and death overtake Paris, Isabel decides to try to return to England so she can see her son again. Levison, who is not allowed to enter England, wants her to stay and complains that her extravagances were the cause of his ruin.
- Frank Lloyd, Claude King, William Tummel
- Ann Harding
Cast. Ann Harding Clive Brook Conrad Nagel Cecilia Loftus Beryl Mercer O. P. Heggie Flora Sheffield David Torrence Wally Albright Ronnie Cosby Eric Mayne Claude King May Beatty Robert Bolder Nora Cecil J. Gunnis Davis Tom Ricketts Wilhelm von Brincken. 102 mins More at IMDb TMDb.
East Lynne is a 1931 American pre-Code film version of Ellen Wood's eponymous 1861 novel, which was adapted by Tom Barry and Bradley King and directed by Frank Lloyd. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture but lost to RKO-Radio's Cimarron.
