A Lady of Quality
Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorinda accidentally kills Sir John when he, infuriated by her forthcoming marriage, threatens to blackmail her. She buries the body in the cellar and admits her act to the forgiving Osmonde before marrying him.
Marion Fairfax
Hobart Henley
Casts & Crew
Virginia Valli
Lionel Belmore
Margaret Seddon
Peggy Cartwright
Milton Sills
Florence Gibson
Dorothea Wolbert
Bert Roach
Earle Foxe
Leo White
George B. Williams
Willard Louis
Patterson Dial
Yvonne Armstrong
Bobbie Mack
Also Directed by Hobart Henley
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Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood.
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His Tiger Wife (1928)