The Lady Refuses

Name: The Lady Refuses
Released: 1931-03-08T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 5.4

Torn From the Heart of Woman

1931 • 72 min • ★ 5.4 (20) • Released

Drama Romance

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.

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Original title: The Lady Refuses
Language: EN
Country: US
Budget: —
Revenue: —

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CinemaSerf

Mar 28, 2022 · via TMDB

★ 6.0

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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Keywords 14

father son relationship gold digger interclass romance jealous lover jealousy love triangle man woman relationship melodrama melodramatic murder pre-code prostitution self sacrifice wild oats

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