The Pleasure Garden (film)

Infobox_Film
name = The Pleasure Garden


caption = Original movie poster
imdb_id = 0016230
producer = Michael Balcon
Erich Pommer
director = Alfred Hitchcock
writer = Novel:
Oliver Sandys
Screenplay:
Eliot Stannard
starring = Virginia Valli
Carmelita Geraghty
Miles Mander
John Stuart
Ferdinand Martini
music =
cinematography = Gaetano di Ventimiglia
editing = Continuity:
Alma Reville
distributor = Wardour Films Ltd.
released = flagicon|Germany November 3, 1925
flagicon|United Kingdom March 1, 1926
flagicon|USA 1926
runtime = 75 minutes
language = Silent film
English intertitles
amg_id = 1:106253

"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

*List of German films 1919-1933

External links

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