The Virtuous Sin

The Virtuous Sin
Original poster
Directed byGeorge Cukor
Louis J. Gasnier
Written byMartin Brown
Louise Long
Based on a play by Lajos Zilahy
StarringWalter Huston
Kay Francis
Kenneth MacKenna
CinematographyDavid Abel
Edited byOtho Lovering
Music bySam Coslow
Ralph Rainger
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • October 24, 1930 (1930-10-24)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Virtuous Sin is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor and Louis J. Gasnier and starring Walter Huston, Kay Francis, and Kenneth MacKenna. The screenplay by Martin Brown and Louise Long is based on the 1928 play The General by Lajos Zilahy. A separate 1931 German-language version The Night of Decision was shot at Paramount's Joinville Studios in Paris.