Review of The Divorcee (1930) by Christopher P — 23 Feb 2009

A good film, but, perhaps because of the time in which it was made, it tends to take the old-fashioned view that women are predominantly responsible for all marital strife. Quite to the contrary, it is the husband who strays first in this story, and who then tries to assure his wife that his indiscretion really "didn't mean a thing".

But when the wife, in a state of drunken grief, also commits adultery, her husband leaves her and the film seems to ultimately place the preponderance of guilt upon the woman, without addressing the attendant hypocrisy.