7.6
Billy Elliot
2000
“Torn From the Heart of Woman”
The Lady Refuses (1931)
March 8, 19311h 12mEN
5.1
18 votes
Overview
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
Director
George ArchainbaudWriters
Where to Watch
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Free
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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N/A
Revenue
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Production Companies
RKO Radio Pictures
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CinemaSerf
6.0Betty Compson is quite good in this amiable little love-triangle melodrama. She is a lady down on her luck who, in order to avoid the pursuing constabulary, alights on the home of the wealthy "Sir Gerald" (Gilbert Emery). He takes her in, has dinner with her (much to the chagrin of his butler "Dobbs" (Edgar Norton) and the pair begin to bond. He, meantime, has been having some issues with his errant son "Russell" (the handsome John Darrow) and so the pair concoct a plan by which she is to be paid £1,000 ($5,000) to help bring him back from the avaricious clutches of Margaret Livingtsone ("Bert…
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