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THE PLEASURE GARDEN

6:20 ♪

Monday, March 9

LIVE PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT BY STEVE STERNER

Director Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander
Screenplay Eliot Stannard
Based on the novel by Oliver Sandys
Cinematography Gaetano di Ventimiglia
1925 | UK, Weimar Republic | DCP | Approx. 90 min. | Silent with English intertitles

Good girl chorus girl Virginia Valli befriends wannabe Carmelita Geraghty, and then Geraghty’s fiancé John Stuart arrives with his pal Miles Mander (see The First Born, March 19), and then ensues … a Russian prince, a diva’s rise, intrigue in the East, a drowning, a shooting, two marriages, and more. Hitchcock’s very first feature, assisted by Alma Reville.

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