Yorkshire Evening Post (10/Sep/1927) - Easy Virtue

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• article: Easy Virtue
• newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post (10/Sep/1927)
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Easy Virtue (1928)

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Easy Virtue

Alfred Hitchcock, the young British director of Easy Virtue, has done remarkably well in the production of a stage play which one has no hesitation in pronouncing as being very difficult to turn into a screen success. The Divorce Court scene, to which we are immediately introduced, is really clever, especially the view obtained by a short-sighted judge of the court before him.

The dramatic sense is amply portrayed when the heroine, after her second divorce, says to the photographers : "Shoot, there is nothing left to kill," and ingeniousness of direction is shown during a telephone conversation between the hero and the heroine. You see neither of them, but the expression on the telephone operator's face is relied upon as a record of the conversation.