Cape Forlorn is a 1931 British drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Fay Compton, Frank Harvey and Ian Hunter.

[2] It was the English-language version of a British International Pictures multiple-language production with France and Germany which also made Le cap perdu and Menschen im Käfig.

Eileen then begins flirting with a stranger, Kingsley, an absconder who is rescued from the wreck of a motor launch.

[4] The film was originally banned in Australia by the censor[5] but this was overturned on appeal after a number of cuts were agreed upon.

[7] Shortly after the film was released in Australia, Harvey appeared in a production of the play at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney.