Our Betters

When American heiress Pearl Saunders marries Sir George Grayson, everyone thinks it is a brilliant match: Sir George is delighted with Pearl's money, and Pearl is in love with her new husband's title in Academy Award-winning director George Cukor's adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's biting comedy Our Betters. Marital bliss soon ends, however, when Pearl realizes that George has no intention of abandoning his philandering. Pearl matches him affair for affair as the couple view London high society as their personal playground. But when Pearl's younger sister Bessie appears to be following Pearl's example rather than her own heart, Pearl realizes the mistaken choices she has made in this sharp-edged pre-Hayes Code classic.