During WW2, a british freighter is sunk by a U-boat, at the same time the U-boat is destroyed. Several survivors of the freighter, plus the German U-boat captain manage to clamber onto the only surviving lifeboat. This group, thrown together into such cramped quarters in the middle of a vast sea, have to figure out how to eat, drink, deal with a gangrenous infection, and sail toward some definitive goal. Continue reading…
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Hitchcock remade this play a couple decades later in the better-know version starring Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day. Continue reading…
The plot centers on a ring of foreign saboteurs operating in London. Their last attack, causing a Continue reading…
This movie began as a silent, then the producers decided to switch to sound. Some scenes are still silent or pseudo-silent (voices without need to lip sync). But one can watch it as comfortably as a normal talkie, as most of the scenes, and all the critical ones, have Continue reading…
Alfred Hitchcock silent, based on Noel Coward play.
The opening title, “easy virtue is society’s reward for a slandered reputation,” declares the theme of the movie.
Larita (Isabel Jeans) is falsely but understandably accused of adultery by alcoholic husband. Convicted in court, she tries to start over, but can she escape the hideous past? is the question.
Undoubtedly meant as a critique of bourgeois morality, read: hypocrisy. This is a favorite theme of twentieth century playwrites. Continue reading…
