The Pleasure Garden (1927 film)
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The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 film (actually released in early 1927), 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 custom's officials. The trick failed, and they had to pay fines, and buy new film.
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: Patsy Brand
- Carmelita Geraghty: Jill Cheyne
- Miles Mander: Levet
- John Stuart: Hugh Fielding
- Ferdinand Martini: Mr. Sidey
- Florence Helminger: Mrs. Sidey
- Georg H. Schnell: Oscar Hamilton
- Karl Falkenberg; Prince Ivan
- Nita Naldi; Levet's Native Lover
