Product Details

• Actors: Dorothy Boyd, Darcia Deane, Franklin Dyall, Frank Elliott, Violet Farebrother
• Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
• Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, Silent, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Westlake Budget
• DVD Release Date: February 10, 2004
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009OL8BC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #335,989 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The misfortunes of easy virtue, October 28, 2010

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Virtue (DVD)

Noel Coward wrote EASY VIRTUE, his 16th play, at age 25. It ran on Broadway for 147 performances between Dec. 1925 and April '26, then went in London. As originally presented, this was a three act melodrama with a few witty dashes.

Alfred Hitchcock kept the original outline but darkened the story. He eliminated all but two lines of the play script. The movie opens with Larita's divorce trial, a suit brought by her brutish husband after Larita's lover commits suicide. The jury finds for the plaintiff. She leaves for the south of France and meets the man who will be her second husband.

Larita's in-laws resent her from the beginning. They treat her like a dog privately but put on phony happy faces for their friends. The mother-in-law is particularly caustic and she turns her son against his wife. When news clippings of the sensational trial surface, he scorns Larita and the story ends with a divorce notice after she leaves the family's country estate.

Long believed lost, a copy of "Easy Virtue" turned up in the 1970s. It's interesting primarily in reference to Hitchcock's body of work, especially his pre-Hollywood films. Although evidence of the director's future style is everywhere, acting in this silent film is hammy, especially from leading lady Miss Jeans. Two versions exist: this 79 minute one and an 89 minute restoration. (Director cameo: Hitch ambles past the tennis court with a walking stick.)

Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.

(5.8) Easy Virtue (UK-1927) - Isabel Jeans/Franklin Dyall/Eric Bransby Williams/Ian Hunter/Robin Irvine/Violet Farebrother/Frank Elliott/Darcia Deane/Dorothy Doyd/Enid Stamp-Taylor

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A very old film with the flaws of very old films, October 6, 2010

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Israel Drazin (Boca Raton, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Virtue (DVD)

This is a very early Hitchcock film. It is a silent film with all the hallmarks of the genre. The male stars wear lip stick. The film only reveals part of what the people say. The camera dwells on the faces of the actors overlong. Nevertheless, it is fun to see how movies have developed since that age.

The story is about a woman who is found guilty of having an affair while married. The trial was famous and the woman ran to France to escape from people. There she meets a man. The two fall in love. She fails to tell him about her past. When he takes her home, his family is shocked because they know who she is.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly the play but close, December 11, 2009

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bernie "webviator" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Virtue (DVD)

Actually, this 1927 Alfred Hitchcock version of Noel Coward's play is close to the book but annoying having to keep up with the screen cards. They do not look like they match the verbiage. In addition, this version is much darker than the newer film version. I suggest you read the play first.

We start with the trial and flash back to where a woman (Isabel Jeans) hides her sordid past from her new husband and family.

We learn what easy virtue really means.

A fun sideline is trying to figure out where you have seen the actors before.

Easy virtue,: A play in three acts

Easy Virtue [Blu-ray] ~ Jessica Biel