Bad manors

Easy Virtue

(1928)

Slow and soapy, one of Hitchcock's last silent films, and almost without virtue of any sort. Apparently Noël Coward's play mixed comic and tragic elements, but Hitchcock's film is pure melodrama, with only two comic scenes I can think of--inept little rich boy John Whittaker struggling with a martini shaker and (the highlight of the film) an eavesdropping hotel switchboard operator conveying by her reactions the progress of Whittaker's marriage proposal to Larita.