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Release year: 1931

Storyline

Gossip, snobbery, mistrust, divorce and a mail-order engagement dominate the lives of the British upper class living in the plantation colonies of Southeast Asia.

Top credits

Directors

Alfred E. Green

Writers

Cast

William Powell — Hugh Dawltry
Doris Kenyon — Philippa Crosby March
Marian Marsh — Rene March
Louis Calhern — Dr. George March

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Did you know

• NYT notes that this was William Powell's first starring role for Warner Brothers. He made a total of nine films at the studio.

• There is an impressive sequence that is technically ingenious: the camera begins on Doris Kenyon's character as she gazes out of her home at night - the camera pulls away and though the jungle foliage - at a group of dark bushes there is a clever splice and the camera continues to move through and over the jungle landscape (via a VERY good miniature) and then via another clever splice, the camera brings us to and inside William Powell's home, where Powell is also gazing out into the night.

• The play on which the novel and this movie was based opened in Cardiff, UK on 7 October 1929.