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The Passionate Adventure (1924)

The Passionate Adventure poster
Directed by
Graham Cutts, Alfred Hitchcock
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 21m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man gets caught up in a romantic intrigue that tests his marriage. The story comes from a novel and was adapted by the young Alfred Hitchcock.

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What happens

The Passionate Adventure is a 1924 British silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Clive Brook and Alice Joyce. The film was adapted from a novel by Frank Stayton by Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Morton, with Hitchcock also credited as assistant director to Cutts. The Passionate Adventure is also notable as the first film released under the aegis of Michael Balcon's newly formed Gainsborough Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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