Much has been made recently about this film due to the recent rediscovery and restoration of a partial print, and the fact that the young Alfred Hitchcock was the AD.
Don't cry if you don't get around to seeing it. Betty Compsom came to England to make 'Woman to Woman' for Cutts. This was a success and 'The White Shadow' was hurriedly made to capitalize on this before her return to America. Even at the time, it was not well received. It's a shame that this rather than 'Woman to Woman' survived; it might have had more to show us.
The attractive, flirtatious 'Nancy' (Compson) meets Robin (Clive Brook -- looking far too old for her) on her return home to the Devon countryside from Paris. From here we proceed to what Roger Ebert calls the 'idiot plot' -- the whole movie would disappear if everyone didn't act like idiots. Robin meets Nancy at her estate and they kiss. The next day Nancy sends her mopey, serious twin sister Georgina (Compson again) to meet Robin in her place. Georgina rejects him. Nancy, bored runs away from home, mom dies, alcoholic dad wanders off, Georgina moves to London to try to find Nancy. Robin meets Georgina thinking her to be Nancy -- he doesn't know that there are two of them -- and falls for her, though thinking that she isn't quite the same as the carefree, flirtatious Nancy he first met. It goes on like this, with some unintentionally funny scenes, but I won't.
Don't cry if you don't get around to seeing it. Betty Compsom came to England to make 'Woman to Woman' for Cutts. This was a success and 'The White Shadow' was hurriedly made to capitalize on this before her return to America. Even at the time, it was not well received. It's a shame that this rather than 'Woman to Woman' survived; it might have had more to show us.
The attractive, flirtatious 'Nancy' (Compson) meets Robin (Clive Brook -- looking far too old for her) on her return home to the Devon countryside from Paris. From here we proceed to what Roger Ebert calls the 'idiot plot' -- the whole movie would disappear if everyone didn't act like idiots. Robin meets Nancy at her estate and they kiss. The next day Nancy sends her mopey, serious twin sister Georgina (Compson again) to meet Robin in her place. Georgina rejects him. Nancy, bored runs away from home, mom dies, alcoholic dad wanders off, Georgina moves to London to try to find Nancy. Robin meets Georgina thinking her to be Nancy -- he doesn't know that there are two of them -- and falls for her, though thinking that she isn't quite the same as the carefree, flirtatious Nancy he first met. It goes on like this, with some unintentionally funny scenes, but I won't.