MOVIE · 1931
An American Tragedy
CrimeDramaRomance96 min
Phillips Holmes is an ambitious young man trying to climb into a richer world when his affair with a working-class woman is upended by her pregnancy. Sylvia Sidney is the girlfriend whose future now depends on him, while Frances Dee’s wealthy socialite represents the life he wants to reach. What begins as a romance shaped by class and ambition darkens into a murder case and a trial, with the story keeping its focus on status, desire, and the consequences of treating love as a way up.
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