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The Lady Refuses

The Lady Refuses

5,4 /10 (20 Votes)
1931 EN 72 min

Overview

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.

Release date

08/03/1931

Votes

20

Popularity

0.6

Torn From the Heart of Woman

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

72 min

Original Soundtrack

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-03-28

⭐ 6

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 ("Bert…

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