The Pleasure Garden (1925)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.3/10   

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Escritores:

Oliver Sandys (novel)
Eliot Stannard (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

1926 (USA)

Género:

Crimen | Romance

Plot:

Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer...

Plot Keywords:

Honeymoon | Chorus Girl | Melodrama | Extramarital Affair | Murder

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A Pleasure!

Reparto

Virginia Valli	...	Patsy Brand
Carmelita Geraghty	...	Jill Cheyne
Miles Mander	...	Levett
John Stuart	...	Hugh Fielding
Ferdinand Martini	...	Mr. Sidey (as Ferd Martini)
Florence Helminger	...	Mrs. Sidey
Georg H. Schnell	...	Oscar Hamilton (as George Snell)
Karl Falkenberg	...	Prince Ivan (as C. Falkenberg)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Lewis Brody
Nita Naldi	...	Levet's Native Lover (unconfirmed)

También conocida como:

Irrgarten der Leidenschaft (Alemania)
El jardín de la alegría (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

75 min

País:

UK | Alemania

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.33 : 1

Sonido:

Silent

Clasificación:

Argentina:13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Alassio, Savona, Liguria, Italy

Compañía:

Gainsborough Pictures

Trivialidades:

Although shot in 1925, and shown to the British press in March 1926, the film wasn't actually released in the UK until after The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) was a massive hit.

Citas:

[first lines]
Pleasure Garden theatergoer: That's an exquisite chorus line, Mr. Hamilton.
Oscar Hamilton: Meet Patsy Brand.
Pleasure Garden theatergoer: I had to meet you because I was charmed by that lovely curl of hair.
Patsy Brand: [detaches the curl and presents it] Then I give it to you and hope you have a nice time. Now that wasn't a very clever line, was it?

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en "Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood" (1995)

A Pleasure!

This was Hitchcock's first ever film as director to be completed and it is indicative of his huge talent. Despite its age and therefore somewhat primitive production the young Hitch does a superb, professional and classy job. The film maintains interest throughout and is still funny, entertaining and impressive when viewed today! Hitchcock imbues it with directorial flourishes of brilliance with clever, interesting camera shots, intelligent storytelling and little bits of his psychological themes which strengthen all his films.

In conclusion this is a superb film considering its age and the fact it is Hitchcock's debut.