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Easy Virtue (1927)

In the times where divorce was a more serious issue than it is today, we find ourselves in late 1920’s England. The media is swooning over a high profile trial in a divorce court.  When the couple is eventually separated, the female half goes on vacation to France to get away from the negative attention.

While there she meets another man and they eventually get married. Unfortunately her scandalous history comes back to haunt her and her new husband is forced to choose between his new wife and his conservative, country family.  The film has its strengths and weaknesses. 

Hitchcock was able to do a great deal of portraying of facts and emotions through the actions of his actors and cut down on the amount of title cards needed to project dialog.  That’s good.  But Hitchcock had little passion for the project from the beginning and was contractually bound to do it resulting in a moderately drab film. That’s bad. 

The opening trial sequence was able to cut back and forth between the court room and the back story almost seamlessly and was very well done.  That’s good.  But the film took a screeching halt after that and I never really cared what happened to anyone from then on out. That’s bad. 

(Directed by Hitchcock)

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