Restored

UK Premiere of 4K Restoration: Letty Lynton

+ intro by Caroline Cassin, Women & Cocaine film curator

Joan Crawford’s most elusive film returns from cinematic exile in a stunning 4K restoration.

  • Director

    Clarence Brown

  • With

    Joan Crawford, Nils Asther, Robert Montgomery

  • USA 1932. 84min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • Certificate

    PG

This defining melodrama of the pre-Code era languished in legal limbo for 90 years after a plagiarism lawsuit removed it from circulation. Crawford stars as a socialite driven to desperate measures by a possessive former lover. Brown directs with razor-sharp tension, while Adrian’s costumes, especially the ‘Letty Lynton dress’, sparked a nationwide fashion craze, hailed by Edith Head as cinema’s greatest influence on fashion.

New 4K restoration by Warner Bros. Discovery.