The Pleasure Garden (film)
| The Pleasure Garden | |
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 Original movie poster |
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| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon Erich Pommer |
| Written by | Novel: Oliver Sandys Screenplay: Eliot Stannard |
| Starring | Virginia Valli Carmelita Geraghty Miles Mander John Stuart Ferdinand Martini |
| Cinematography | Gaetano di Ventimiglia |
| Editing by | Continuity: Alma Reville |
| Distributed by | Wardour Films Ltd. |
| Release date(s) |  November 3, 1925 March 1, 1926 1926 |
| Running time | 75 minutes |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
| IMDb • Allmovie | |
The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 silent film, and the debut feature of Alfred Hitchcock.
Michael Balcon allowed Hitchcock to direct the film when Graham Cutts, a jealous executive at Gainsborough Pictures, would not allow him to work on The Rat. The story concerns two chorus girls at The Pleasure Garden Theatre, in London, Patsy Brand and Jill Cheyne. It was shot in Italy and Germany. It was based on a novel by Oliver Sandys.
Many misfortunes befell the cast and crew. This included a serious depletion of their budget when Gaetano Ventimiglia, the film's cinematographer, tried to hide the film from Italian customs officials. The trick failed, and they had to pay fines, and buy new film.
Although the film was shot in 1925, and was shown to the British press in March 1926, the film wasn't officially released in the UK until after The Lodger became a massive hit, in 1927.
Cast and crew
- Producers: Erich Pommer and Michael Balcon
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay: Eliot Stannard
- Assistant director: Alma Reville (whom Hitchcock soon married)
- Cinematographer: Gaetano Ventimiglia
- Virginia Valli as Patsy Brand
- Carmelita Geraghty as Jill Cheyne
- Miles Mander as Levet
- John Stuart as Hugh Fielding
- Ferdinand Martini as Mr. Sidey
- Florence Helminger as Mrs. Sidey
- Georg H. Schnell as Oscar Hamilton
- Karl Falkenberg as Prince Ivan
- Lewis Brody
- Nita Naldi as Levet's Native Lover (unconfirmed)
See also
External links
- The Pleasure Garden (film) at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
- The Pleasure Garden at the Internet Movie Database
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