The Blackguard

The Blackguard
The Blackguard
Directed by Graham Cutts
Produced by Michael Balcon
Erich Pommer
Written by Raymond Paton (Novel)
Alfred Hitchcock
Adrian Brunel
Starring Jane Novak
Walter Rilla
Frank Stanmore
Bernhard Goetzke
Cinematography Theodor Sparkuhl
Studio Gainsborough Pictures
UFA Studios
Distributed by Wardour Films
Lee-Bradford Corporation
Release date(s) 26 October 1925 (1925-10-26)
Country United Kingdom
Germany
Language English, German

The Blackguard (1925) is a British-German drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Jane Novak, Walter Rilla, and Frank Stanmore.[1] Its German title is Die Prinzessin und der Geiger. Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution a violinist saves a Princess from execution.

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Production

It was a co-production between Gainsborough Studios and UFA initiating a decade-long series of co-productions which only ended with the rise to power of the Nazi Party in the 1930s.[2] It was based on the novel The Blackguard by Raymond Paton. The film was shot at Studio Babelsberg, in Potsdam near Berlin, the first time a Gainsborough film was shot abroad. The film was one of a number of films made in this genre during the 1920s, the most successful of which was the 1927 American film The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg.[3]

While working on the film, Alfred Hitchcock was able to study several films being made nearby, including The Last Laugh by F. W. Murnau, which were a major influence on his later work.

Cast

  • Jane Novak - Prinzessin Maria Idourska / Princess Marie Idourska
  • Walter Rilla - Michael Caviol, The Blackguard
  • Frank Stanmore - Pompouard
  • Bernhard Goetzke - Adrian Levinsky
  • Rosa Valetti - Grandmother
  • Dora Bergner - Duchess
  • Fritz Alberti - Painter
  • Robert Leffler - Leidner
  • Alexander Murski - Vollmark
  • Martin Herzberg - Michael Caviol as a boy
  • Loni Nest - Prinzessin Maria as little girl
  • Robert Scholz - Grandduke Paul

References

  1. ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/26077
  2. ^ Cook p.16-17
  3. ^ Cook p.36

Bibliography

  • Cook, Pam (ed.). Gainsborough Pictures. Cassell, 1997.
  • Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa story: a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.

External links

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1920s
The Wonderful Story (1922) • Cocaine (1922) • Flames of Passion (1922) • Woman to Woman (1923) • The White Shadow (1923) • Paddy the Next Best Thing (1923) • The Prude's Fall (1924) • The Passionate Adventure (1924) • The Blackguard (1925) • The Sea Urchin (1925) • The Rat (1925) • The Triumph of the Rat (1926) • The Queen Was in the Parlour (1927) • Die Spielerin (1927) • Glorious Youth (1928) • Confetti (1928) • The Rolling Road (1928) • God's Clay (1928) • The Return of the Rat (1929) •
1930s
The Temperance Fete (1932) • Looking on the Bright Side (1932) • The Sign of Four (1932) • Three Men in a Boat (1933) • As Good As New (1933) • Love on the Spot (1934) • Oh, Daddy! (1935) • Car of Dreams (1935) • Aren't Men Beasts! (1937) • Over She Goes (1938) • Let's Make a Night of It (1938)
1940s
She Couldn't Say No (1940) • Just William (1940)

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