 The film was sufficiently successful to attract other similar offers, but L'Herbier felt the loss of his independence of action, and after making two detective films based on books by Gaston Leroux, ' (1930) and "" (1931), he withdrew from film-making for two years and returned to writing.In 1933, fearing that he was losing touch with the film business, he returned to make several more versions of stage plays, "L'Épervier", "Le Scandale" and "L'Aventurier", all of which enjoyed commercial popularity but gave little scope for the kind of cinematic invention that he sought.L'Herbier's most successful film of the 1930s was "Le Bonheur" (1934), ("a miraculous conjunction of talents"), adapted from a play by Henri Bernstein, with Charles Boyer and Gaby Morlay in the leading roles.