A Private Scandal is a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Charles Hutchison and starring Marian Nixon, Lloyd Hughes and Theodore von Eltz. AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993Langman p.163 It was distributed by the independent Headline Pictures.
Plot After a jewel robbery at the home of a member of the Boston elite, Count Raymond d'Alencourt is arrested by police due to his previous record. However, his accomplices get away with the loot and go to ground in a small Connecticut town. One of them marries Mary Gate, the daughter of a local family as cover for smuggling the jewels into New York.
Cast Marian Nixon as Mary Gate Lloyd Hughes as Daniel Treve Theodore von Eltz as Matthew Gray Lucille Powers as Rita Gray Fletcher Norton as Count Raymond d'Alencourt Eddie Phillips as Eddie Burr McIntosh as The Judge George Willis as George Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Snowflake Walter Hiers as Honest John Broderick O'Farrell as Senator Dorothy Vernon as Landlady
Preservation The film is preserved in nitrate UCLA Film and TV Archive. Internet Movie Database A Private Scandal; Trivia
References
Bibliography Langman, Larry. A Guide to American Film Directors: The Sound Era, 1929-1979, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 1981.
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