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A Woman of Experience (1931)

A Woman of Experience poster
Directed by
Harry Joe Brown
Genre
romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 14m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

During World War I, a woman with a questionable past is turned away from volunteer work but is then recruited as a spy for Austria. She becomes caught between her mission and her emotions.

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What happens

A Woman of Experience is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Helen Twelvetrees, William Bakewell and Lew Cody, based on the play The Registered Woman by John Farrow. During World War I, a woman is rejected for volunteer work because of her dubious reputation, but that same reputation gets her recruited as a spy for Austria. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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