This lavish historical drama about the scandalous romance of Lady Emma Hamilton and Lord Horatio Nelson won high praise for everything but the story, which critics called trite, awkward and bowdlerized, since Hamilton's uninhibited affairs were not in line with contemporary morals. Based
on E. Barrington's novel
The Divine Lady: A Romance of Nelson and Emma Hamilton, the film follows the adventures of small-town English flower Emma Hart (Corinne Griffith), the beautiful daughter of a cook. She is "discovered" by her mother's employer, aristocratic Charles Grenville (Ian Keith).
Emma falls in love with Grenville, but he merely exploits her, taking her to Ital...
Released:
1929
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins