Easy Virtue is a 1928 British silent romance film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall and Ian Hunter.

The movie is loosely based on the 1924 play Easy Virtue by Noël Coward.

The painter, Claude Robson (Eric Bransby Williams), is smitten with Larita.

He sends her a letter asking her to leave the physically abusive Mr. Filton, and marry him.

The jury rejects Larita's testimony and instead decides in Aubrey's favor, in large part because Larita is quite attractive, and Claude had written a will leaving her his entire fortune "to another man's wife!"

As Larita leaves the courtroom, she hides her face from photographers trying to take her picture.

Larita leaves for the French Riviera to avoid continued unwanted attention.

While John's father likes Larita very much, his mother strongly disapproves even before meeting her.

Later that day, John admits to his old girlfriend that his mother has helped him see that he made a huge mistake marrying Larita.

Larita sits anonymously in the court gallery, weeping, as she watches John's uncontested divorce.

[3] As of October 2018, the restored version only has appeared on DVD and Blu-ray from Elephant Films in France.

[4] On January 1, 2024, Easy Virtue entered the public domain in the United States.