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The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 film, 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 customs 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

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