A Private Scandal | |
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Directed by | Charles Hutchison |
Written by | Jack Natteford |
Produced by | Charles Hutchison |
Starring | Marian Nixon Lloyd Hughes Theodore von Eltz |
Cinematography | Ernest Miller |
Edited by | Richard Cahoon |
Production company | Charles Hutchison Productions |
Distributed by | Headline Pictures |
Release date | December 31, 1931 |
Running time | 67 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
A Private Scandal is a 1931 American crime drama film directed by Charles Hutchison and starring Marian Nixon, Lloyd Hughes and Theodore von Eltz. [1] [2] It was distributed by the independent Headline Pictures.
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.
The film is preserved in nitrate UCLA Film and TV Archive. [3]
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