
Compulsive gambler Tony Hamilton bets his friend Dick $5,000 that he will marry Charlotte Randolph, despite the fact that she is a total stranger and is engaged to the Duke de Val. Tony wins his bet.


*Lost: A Wife* is a cinematic mosaic of obsession and redemption, a film that dares to dissect the human condition through the prism of a man whose vice is as intoxicating as the love he cannot claim. Directed with a velvet-glove ferocity, this 1930 drama is a testament to the era’s penchant for moral quandaries wra...

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William C. de Mille

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" *Lost: A Wife* is a cinematic mosaic of obsession and redemption, a film that dares to dissect the human condition through the prism of a man whose vice is as intoxicating as the love he cannot claim. Directed with a velvet-glove ferocity, this 1930 drama is a testament to the era’s penchant for moral quandaries wrapped in the garb of romantic melodrama. With Henrietta Floyd and Robert Agnew as the magnetic leads, the film’s emotional stakes are as volatile as a rigged roulette wheel, and yet..."
Clare Kummer, Alfred Savoir, Clara Beranger
United States

