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.
- 5.1
- 1931
- Released
- 1h 12m
Betty Compson
June
John Darrow
Russell Courtney
Gilbert Emery
Sir Gerald Courtney
Margaret Livingston
Berthine Waller
Ivan Lebedeff
Nikolai Rabinoff
Edgar Norton
Dobbs
Daphne Pollard
Millie
Halliwell Hobbes
Sir James (uncredited)
Dick Rush
Detective (uncredited)
Reginald Sharland
Freddy (uncredited)Released
en
- #jealousy
- #love triangle
- #self sacrifice
- #man woman relationship
- #murder
- #prostitution
- #pre-code
- #gold digger
- #interclass romance
- #father son relationship
- #melodrama
- #melodramatic
- #father and son
- #jealous lover
- #wild oats
Reviews
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 erra