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5.4/10 • 16

1931-03-081h 12m

RomanceDrama

Torn From the Heart of Woman

A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.

Directors
George Archainbaud
Editors
Jack Kitchin

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  1. Betty Compson

    Betty Compson

    June

  2. John Darrow

    John Darrow

    Russell Courtney

  3. Gilbert Emery

    Gilbert Emery

    Sir Gerald Courtney

  4. Margaret Livingston

    Margaret Livingston

    Berthine Waller

  5. Ivan Lebedeff

    Ivan Lebedeff

    Nikolai Rabinoff

  6. Edgar Norton

    Edgar Norton

    Dobbs

  7. Daphne Pollard

    Daphne Pollard

    Millie

  8. Halliwell Hobbes

    Halliwell Hobbes

    Sir James (uncredited)

  9. Dick Rush

    Dick Rush

    Detective (uncredited)

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CinemaSerf

Mar 28, 2022

6/10

Betty Compson is quite good in this amiable little love-triangle melodrama. She is a lady down on her luck who, in order to avoid the pursuing constabulary, alights on the home of the wealthy "Sir Gerald" (Gilbert Emery). He takes her in, has dinner with her (much to the chagrin of his butler "Dobbs" (Edgar Norton) and the pair begin to bond. He, meantime, has been having some issues with his errant son "Russell" (the handsome John Darrow) and so the pair concoct a plan by which she is to be paid £1,000 ($5,000) to help bring him back from the avaricious clutches of Margaret Livingtsone ("Berthine"). Snag is, gradually she falls for both men - and they both fall for her and... Now, the production is about as basic as you can get and is seriously stage bound. The lighting is desperately short of wattage and the British accents - well, perhaps less said about the the better. That said, Compson delivers an engaging, feisty towards the end, performance that demonstrates a strength of character and an independence of spirit well ahead of it's time (for the cinema, anyway!).

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
jealousylove triangleself sacrificemurderprostitutionpre-codegold diggerinterclass romancefather son relationshipmelodramamelodramaticfather and sonjealous loverwild oats