The Notorious Lady

I don't understand how Barbara Bedford didn't become a bigger star than she was. She is gorgeous and her acting is superb. Film is highly interesting. Lewis Stone is good as the husband who suspect his wife is having an affair and accidentally kills him (Lloyd Whitlock) when he catches his wife with him.

Watching in the 21st century, you have to wonder why Lewis Stone didn't suspect or realize that his wife was lying to save him from a murder charge if he really loved her. Also, if Bedford had wanted to avoid scandal and save her husband you have to wonder why she could not have said that Lloyd Whitlock maliciously tried to compromise her and they attempted to rape her instead of lying that she was actually having an affair with him.

Save for that plot hole, the film is quite entertaining and well done. The modern music score on the print I saw was terrible so I watched the film on mute while playing a Musical Score from the period recorded in 1928 (from "A Woman Of Affairs").