East Lynne

Name: East Lynne
Director: Frank Lloyd
Genre: หนังชีวิต
Released: 1931-03-01
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Rating: 6.559
Cast: Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel, Cecilia Loftus, Beryl Mercer

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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.

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Ann Harding

Lady Isabella
Clive Brook

Capt. William Levison
Conrad Nagel

Robert Carlyle
Cecilia Loftus

Cornelia Carlyle
Beryl Mercer

Joyce
O. P. Heggie

Lord Mount Severn
Flora Sheffield

Barbara Hare
David Torrence

Sir Richard Hare
Wally Albright

William as a Boy

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6.6 / 10

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CinemaSerf
6 16 ก.พ. 2567

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 that the encroaching Prussians are going to upset her apple cart and an explosion puts her in the care of physicians who advise that that a darkened room is needed if she is to save her sight, she decides she must return to Britain and see her young lad whilst she still can. There are one or two scenes here where the dialogue is suitably robust for Harding to deliver well, especially when facing down her meddling sister-in-law, but for the most part this is really nothing special. The story follows a fairly predicable path of woe and merriment and more woe and try as I did, I just couldn't really get invested in the affairs of "Isabella" or her predicament - even if her treatment by the men in her life was at best indifferent, at worst cruel and possessive. The photography's fine and all in all it's an adequate drama, but one I think I'll only ever watch once.