East Lynne (1931)

03/01/1931Drama1h 42m
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The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.

Top Billed Cast

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    Ann Harding

    Lady Isabella

  2. Cast 1

    Clive Brook

    Capt. William Levison

  3. Cast 1

    Conrad Nagel

    Robert Carlyle

  4. Cast 1

    Cecilia Loftus

    Cornelia Carlyle

  5. Cast 1

    Beryl Mercer

    Joyce

  6. Cast 1

    O. P. Heggie

    Lord Mount Severn

  7. Flora Sheffield

    Barbara Hare

  8. Cast 1

    David Torrence

    Sir Richard Hare

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    Wally Albright

    William as a Boy

Much is made of the physical history of this film. The fact that it's only decent copy lies safely in the vaults of UCLA but I wonder if maybe that's not the best place for this rather unremarkable melodrama? The story centres around "Isabella" (Ann Harding) who marries "Sir Robert" (Conrad Nagel) who accepts her son but his sister "Cornelia" (Cecilie Loftus) doesn't. She now gets up to a bit of manipulation and stirring and that ends up driving the mother away, and to Paris where she makes a new life for herself - never forgetting the child she was forced to leave behind. When it turns out th...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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