An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
Acting
Garbo's eyes do what dialogue never could — devastating.
Cinematography
Silent-era close-ups that invented modern movie stardom.
Director
Jacques Feyder
Greta Garbo
Irene Guarry
Conrad Nagel
André Dubail
Anders Randolf
Charles Guarry
Holmes Herbert
Lassalle
Lew Ayres
Pierre Lassalle
George Davis
Detective Durant
Symona Boniface
Gossip in Museum (uncredited)
André Cheron
Prosecutor (uncredited)
Carrie Daumery
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Tour Guide (uncredited)
Philip Sleeman
Lounge Lizard (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Greta Garbo's final silent film — MGM added a music score and sound effects for its re-release, desperate to keep her viable as talkies arrived.
The 'foreign' pre-Code moral universe here — where married women have desires and aren't automatically villains — would be censored into oblivion just three years later under the Hays Code.
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