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    Photograph: courtesy Austrian Film Museum.
The Pleasure Garden
Also known as Irrgarten der Leidenschaft in Germany
(1925) British-German
B&W : Seven reels / 6458 feet
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Virginia Valli [Patsy Brand], Carmelita Geraghty [Jill Cheyne], Miles Mander [Levett], John Stuart [Hugh Fielding], Ferd Martini (Ferdinand Martini) [Mr. Sidey], George Snell (Georg H. Schnell) [Oscar Hamilton], C. Falkenberg (Karl Falkenberg) [Prince Ivan], Lewis Brody

Gainsborough Pictures, Limited, and Münchener Lichtspielkunst Aktiengesellschaft production. / Produced by Michael Balcon [?] and Erich Pommer? Scenario by Eliot Stannard, from the novel The Pleasure Garden by Oliver Sandys. Art direction by C.W. Arnold and Ludwig Reiber. Assistant director, Alma Reville. Cinematography by Baron Ventimiglia. / Released 3 November 1925 in Germany. Premiered 1 March 1926 in London, England. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Hitchcock’s first (solely-directed) feature film. The production was shot on-location in Genoa and San Remo, Italy, and in Munich, Germany, at the Emelka studios. [?] Butler-Cinema p. ? lists the length as 7508 feet.

Drama.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Munich Filmmuseum film archive [German-language version?], and in the Douris UK Limited film holdings (Raymond Rohauer collection).

Keywords: Chorus girls

Listing updated: 24 June 2009.

References: Bohn-Light p. 93; Butler-Cinema p. ?; Maltin-Guide p. 993; Perry-British pp. 51, 60e, 328; Taylor-Hitchcock pp. 56, 62-68, 69; Wood-Hitchcock p. 206 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: VHS.

 
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