The Ordeal

📅 1922 ⏱️ 50 min 🎭 Drama

A drama of today in a setting of gorgeous gowns and luxury

📋 Details

🎬 Director

Paul Powell

✍️ Writers

Beulah Marie Dix, W. Somerset Maugham

🌍 Countries

United States of America

🏢 Production

Paramount Pictures

🗣️ Languages

No Language

🎭 Genres

Drama

📖 Overview

Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce becomes jealous of Sybil’s attentions to young physician Robert Acton, and when Bruce suffers a heart attack and calls for digitalis, Sybil allows the vial to break and he dies.