The Faithful Heart is a 1932 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Herbert Marshall, Edna Best and Anne Grey.[1] It is based on the 1921 play The Faithful Heart by Monckton Hoffe. It was made at Islington Studios of Gainsborough Pictures in London.[2] The film's sets were designed by Alex Vetchinsky.
At the turn of the century, a young waitress has a fling with a sailor on leave. He then departs for South Africa to fight in the Boer War and enjoys a distinguished career and is awarded a Victoria Cross for heroics in the First World War. Engaged to a high society heiress, his new status is changed by the sudden arrival of his long-lost daughter, the identical image of her now-deceased mother.