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The Virtuous Sin (1930)

The Virtuous Sin poster
Directed by
Louis J. Gasnier, George Cukor
Genre
comedy drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
NR
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman must choose between loyalty to her husband and her desire for another man during wartime. The story follows her attempts to navigate a difficult romantic situation.

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What happens

The Virtuous Sin is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor and Louis J. Gasnier and starring Walter Huston, Kay Francis, and Kenneth MacKenna. The screenplay by Martin Brown and Louise Long is based on the 1928 play The General by Lajos Zilahy. A separate 1931 German-language version The Night of Decision was shot at Paramount's Joinville Studios in Paris. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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