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The Virtuous Sin is a 1930 American Louis J. Gasnier. The screenplay by Martin Brown and Louise Long is based on the play The General by Lajos Zilahy.
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. With her husband is sentenced to death by firing squad due to his insubordination, Marya offers herself to General Gregori Platoff in order to save him. When the two unexpectedly fall in love, Victor — not caring that his life has been spared — threatens to kill his rival. His determination to eliminate the general falters when Marya confesses she is not in love with her husband — and never was.
Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times called the film "a clever comedy with a splendid performance by Walter Huston" and added, "There is a constant fund of interest in this picture's action. It is one of those rare offerings in which youth takes a back seat.[1]
In the book On Cukor, director Gavin Lambert: "It wasn't much good. I'd be in great shock if they [film restorationists & historians] rescued this one. I remember that I enjoyed working with Kay Francis and Walter Huston, though."[2]
A complete print of this film is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. However, the UCLA archive's website says the print is too shrunken for projection.[3]
Authority control, Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial), Reefer Madness, Parisian Love
Ukraine, India, China, Turkey, United Kingdom
John Huston, Laurence Olivier, Gary Cooper, Soviet Union, Propaganda
Authority control, Russian Empire, Russia, United States, Film director
Katharine Hepburn, /e Cukor, Emlyn Williams, Bill Fraser, Ian Saynor
Louis J. Gasnier, Grace Darmond, Pathé, Astra Film Corporation, The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)
Louis J. Gasnier, Owen Moore, Madge Bellamy, B. P. Schulberg, Helen Reimensnyder Martin