Film

The Ordeal

Age rating

NR

Director

Paul Powell

Year

1922

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

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.