A woman director in 1930 lets her heroine weaponize poverty to test a man's love — delicious.
Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
Direction
Elinor Glyn adapts her own 'It' formula with surprising bite.
Costume
Wardrobe performs class deception better than most dialogue.
Director
Elinor Glyn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Elinor Glyn coined 'It' as sexual magnetism in 1927; this film extends her brand of female-authored desire into direction itself.
Nearly lost, this rarity survives as one of the earliest British sound features directed by a woman — her second and final film.
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