Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.
Direction
Hitchcock's visual storytelling before he was 'Hitchcock'.
Costume
Larita's Riviera glamour vs. English drabness.
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Isabel Jeans
Larita Filton
Franklin Dyall
Aubrey Filton
Ian Hunter
The Plaintiff's Counsel
Robin Irvine
John Whittaker
Violet Farebrother
Mrs. Whittaker
Frank Elliott
Colonel Whittaker
Dorothy Boyd
Hilda Whittaker
Enid Stamp-Taylor
Sarah
Benita Hume
Telephone Receptionist (uncredited)
Ben Webster
Justice Halstead (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock
Man with Stick Near Tennis Court (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hitchcock reportedly hated this film, calling it 'a very bad movie'—classic self-own from his harshest critic.
Based on Noël Coward's 1924 play, it captures the era's obsession with 'fallen women' and the deadly social cost of divorce.
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