James, a young English lord, takes a job as the chauffeur of the wealthy Burgess family in order to be near Mary Burgess, a girl with whom he is in love. The romance scandalizes Mary's relatives; and James, in order to gain their consent to marry Mary, resorts to blackmail: he arranges for one of his friends to romance innocently Mary's aunt and then, if her aunt will not give her consent, threaten to expose this harmless but humiliating intrigue to the world.


Short answer: Yes, this film is worth watching today, but primarily as a sharp-witted artifact of 1920s class obsession. It is for those who enjoy the 'comedy of manners' genre and...
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Janet Crothers, Albert Lewin, Malcolm Stuart Boylan
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1925 · IMDb —


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