Hitchcock's movies

Written by:
Eliot Stannard

Based upon the play by:
Noel Coward

Cinematography by:
Claude L. McDonnell

Production design by:
Cliffor Pember

Film editing by:
Ivor Montague

Produced by:
Michael Balcon

Cast

Isabel Jeans (Larita Filton)

Franklin Dyall (her husband)

Eric Bransby Williams (artist)

Ian Hunter (lawyer)

Robin Irvine (John Whittaker)

Violet Farebrother (his mother)

Frank Elliott (his father)

Darcia Deane (Marion)

Dorothy Boyd (Hilde)

Enid Stamp-Taylor (Sarah)

Laurita Finton is accused by her husband of being in love with an artist.
There is a trial, but the artist, who has been rejected by the girl, kills himself.
Laurita's world is destroyed so she decides to leave, changing her identity and
starting a new life.
She falls in love with a rich young man, John Whittaker, but his family
doesn't like Laurita, a girl with an "easy virtue". John's mother finds out about
the shadows in Laurita's past and tells everything to her son.
John has nothing else to do but to leave the girl he loves.
Laurita feels again the unfair humiliation she suffered by her first husband.

This is a story about a love cracked under the weight of social conventions,
Hitchcock himself didn't like this movie.