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Easy Virtue (Original title)
Date: 05 March 1928 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Story of a woman who gains notoriety by her divorce in which she is the innocent victim of her drunken husband's jealousy.

Genre:
Melodrama

Subject:
Divorce
Releases
Date: 1927Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SilentAspect ratio: 1.33:1Runtime: 70 mins Length: 7390 FeetLanguage: EnglishDistributor: W. & F. Film Service
Date: 1928Country: United KingdomRelease type: Non-TheatricalFormat: 16mm Film - Black and White - SoundLanguage: English
Date: 2012Country: United KingdomRelease type: RestorationFormat: not specified - Black and White - SilentAspect ratio: 1.33:1Runtime: 69 mins Language: English

Credits (10)
Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures, Presented by: C.M. Woolf, Michael Balcon, Assistant Director: Frank Mills, Scenario: Eliot Stannard, Adapted from the play by: Noël Coward, Photography: Claude McDonnell, [Editor]: Ivor Montagu, Art Director: Clifford Pember
Cast (13)
Isabel Jeans (Larita Filton), Franklin Dyall (Aubrey Filton), Eric Bransby Williams (Claude Robson, the co-respondent), Ian Hunter (the plaintiff's counsel), Robin Irvine (John Whittaker), Violet Farebrother (Mrs Whittaker, John's mother), Frank Elliott (Colonel Whittaker, John's father), Dacia Deane (Marion Whittaker), Dorothy Boyd (Hilda Whittaker), Enid Stamp-Taylor (Sarah), Benita Hume ([telephonist]), Alfred Hitchcock ([man exiting tennis court?]), Ben Webster