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  1. Easy Virtue is a 1928 British silent romance film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall and Ian Hunter . The movie is loosely based on the 1924 play Easy Virtue by Noël Coward. It was made at the Islington Studios in London. The film's art direction is by Clifford Pember .

  2. According to the British Film Institute — which recently restored all 9 of the surviving Hitchcock silent films — Easy Virtue only exists as incomplete and degraded 16mm reduction prints: Of all of Hitchcock’s surviving silent films, Easy Virtue has proved the most challenging for the BFI’s restoration team. It survives only in a number ...

  3. A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

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  5. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › 1006429-easy_virtueEasy Virtue | Rotten Tomatoes

    Easy Virtue Released Mar 5, 1928 1h 19m Drama Romance List 63% 8 Reviews Tomatometer 25% 500+ Ratings Audience Score An alcoholic's (Franklin Dyall) ex-wife (Isabel Jeans) falls in love with a ...

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    • Isabel Jeans
    • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Drama, Romance
  6. A static and generally humourless piece of social satire which hardly does justice to Coward's play, Easy Virtue is atypical for Hitchcock but it deals with one of his favourite themes - a person wrongly condemned for a crime he or she did not commit. Although the film was well-received by the critics, Hitchcock was disappointed with it and ...

    • Alfred Hitchcock
  7. Alfred Hitchcock. Director. Eliot Stannard. Writer. Noël Coward. Writer. Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.

  8. www.bfi.org.uk › film › a6f0296e-44e6-52dc-ae78Easy Virtue (1928) | BFI

    Easy Virtue (1928) Alfred Hitchcock adapts Noël Coward’s melodrama about a divorced woman rejected by society. “Easy Virtue is possibly the finest example of the purely literary film-making so prevalent in England during the twenties. Yet Hitchcock raises it above the norm”. Richard A. Harris, Michael S. Lasky, The Films of Alfred ...

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