The Pleasure Garden (1925)

Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Genre

drama film, silent film, crime film, melodrama, crime drama film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

U

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 86 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two chorus girls working in a London theatre navigate rocky romantic relationships. One girl's marriage turns sour while the other gets caught up with a dangerous man.

romanticmelodramatictensesomberatmospherictragicvisually striking

What happens

The Pleasure Garden is a 1926 silent drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his feature film directorial debut. Based on the 1923 novel by Oliver Sandys, The Pleasure Garden is about two chorus girls, played by Virginia Valli and Carmelita Geraghty, at the Pleasure Garden Theatre in London and their troubled relationships. An international co-production of the United Kingdom and Germany, the film premiered in Berlin on 8 January 1926 (as Irrgarten der Leidenschaft). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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