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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.
The Virtuous Sin: Directed by George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier. With Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Kenneth MacKenna, Jobyna Howland. Marya is the wife of medical student Victor Sablin, who finds it impossible to deal with military life when he is inducted into the Russian army during World War I.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier
- 1930-11-01
11. Sept. 2023 · When the two unexpectedly fall in love, Victor — not caring that his life has been spared — threatens to kill his rival. Directors: George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier (as Louis Gasnier). Writers: Martin Brown (screenplay), Louise Long (scenario), Lajos Zilahy (play).
Published November 2, 1930 in the New York Times. “THE Virtuous Sin,” the lurid title for the picturization of Lajos Zilahy’s play “The General,” which was at the Paramount, is a clever comedy with a splendid performance by Walter Huston, who appears as a Russian General-Gregori Platoff.
The Virtuous Sin George Cukor (USA 1930) Wenn Hollywood in den dreissiger Jahren das spätzaristische Russland des Ersten Weltkrieges herbeifantasiert, so hat das mit filmischem Realismus so viel zu tun wie Greta Garbo mit einer kommunistischen Politkommissarin (Ninotschka) oder Marlene Dietrich mit der historischen Katharina der Grossen (The ...
Directed by George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier. To her love meant disaster…yet she had the courage to love! Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
Cukor adapts a Hungarian play to a fairy-tale Russian setting, with modern and unconventional characters. During the First World War a wife offers herself to a general in order to save her husband from the firing squad. In her search for freedom the young woman finds true love with the general.
