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The Pleasure Garden
The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 British silent film, the debut feature of Alfred Hitchcock. Based on a novel by Oliver Sandys, the story concerns Patsy Brand and Jill Cheyne, chorus girls at The Pleasure Garden Theatre in London. -
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The Mountain Eagle
The Mountain Eagle (1927) is a British silent film, and Alfred Hitchcock's second as director following The Pleasure Garden. -
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926 and released on 14 February 1927 in London and on 10 June 1928 in New York City. The film, based on a story by Marie Belloc Lowndes and a play Who Is He? co-written by Belloc Lowndes, concerns the hunt for a "Jack the Ripper" type of serial killer in London. -
The Ring
The Ring (1927) is a British silent, black-and-white film directed and written by Alfred Hitchcock. -
Downhill
Downhill (released in the U.S. as When Boys Leave Home) is a 1927 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on the play Down Hill. It is Hitchcock's fifth film as director. -
The Farmer's Wife
The Farmer’s Wife (1928) is a silent film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
It was based on a play of the same name by British novelist, poet and playwright Eden Phillpotts, best known for a series of novels based on Dartmoor, in Devon. -
Easy Virtue
Easy Virtue (1928) is a silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and loosely based on the play Easy Virtue by Noël Coward. -
Champagne
Champagne (1928) is a silent comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on an original story by English writer and critic Walter C. Mycroft. The film is about a young woman forced to get a job after her father tells her he has lost all his money. -
Blackmail
Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard, and featuring Donald Calthrop, Sara Allgood and Charles Paton.
The film is based on the play Blackmail by Charles Bennett, as adapted by Hitchcock, with dialogue by Benn Levy. Having begun production as a silent film, the studio, British International Pictures, decided to convert it to sound during shooting. A silent version was released for theaters not equipped -
The Manxman
The Manxman (1929) is a silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on an 1896 romantic novel The Manxman by Hall Caine, the director began work on the film just two weeks after the birth of his daughter, Patricia Hitchcock. This was the last silent film Hitchcock directed before he made the transition to sound film with his next film Blackmail.
The Manxman was filmed almost entirely in the small fishing village of Polperro in Cornwall.
After being thought in the public domain for decades, -
Juno and the Paycock
uno and the Paycock (1930) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood.
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Murder!
Murder! is a 1930 British drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring and Edward Chapman. It is based on a novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film, after Blackmail and Juno and the Paycock.
After being thought in the public domain for decades, the film's rights were obtained by French media company Canal+ in 2005. A restored and remastered print of the film was released on DVD by Li -
Elstree Calling
Elstree Calling (1930) is a film directed by Andre Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray, and Alfred Hitchcock at Elstree Studios. The film, referred to as "A Cine-Radio Revue" in its original publicity, is a lavish musical film revue and was Britain's answer to the Hollywood revues which had been produced by the major studios in the United States, such as Paramount on Parade (1930) and Hollywood Review of 1929. The revue has a slim storyline about it being a television broadcast. The film consists -
The Skin Game
The Skin Game is a 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a play by John Galsworthy and produced by British International Pictures (BIP). The story revolves around two rival families, the Hillcrists and the Hornblowers, and the disastrous results of the feud between them.
After being thought to be in the public domain for decades, the film's rights were obtained by French media company Canal+ in 2005. A restored and remastered print of the film was released on DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainme -
Mary
Mary (1931) is a UK-German co-production film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the German language version of Hitchcock's Murder! (1930), shot simultaneously on the same sets with German actors. The film is based on the play Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, and stars Alfred Abel and Olga Tschechowa. -
Rich and Strange
Rich and Strange (1931), also released as East of Shanghai, is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his time in the British film industry. -
Number Seventeen
Number Seventeen is a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a stage play by J. Jefferson Farjeon, and starring John Stuart, Anne Grey and Leon M. Lion. The film is about a group of criminals who committed a jewel robbery and put their money in an old house over a railway leading to the English Channel, the film's title being derived from the house's street number. An outsider stumbles onto this plot and intervenes with the help of a neighbour, a police officer's daughter.
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Waltzes from Vienna
Waltzes from Vienna (1934) is a British musical film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, also known as Strauss' Great Waltz. It was part of the cycle of Operetta films made in Britain during the 1930s. -
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) is a British suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period.
Hitchcock remade the film with James Stewart and Doris Day in 1956 for Paramount Pictures; it is the only film he ever remade. The two films are, however, very different in tone, in setting, and in many plot details.
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