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Alfred Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden |
Legendary
director Alfred Hitchcock is best known for his high profile thrillers,
horrors and espionage chillers and use of icy, beautiful, blonde
Hollywood movie stars. But before Hollywood, his huge body of work in
England is as much masterpieces of their own right as his better known
oeuvres from Hollywood. NETWORK is releasing Alfred Hitchcock’s THE
PLEASURE GARDEN (PG) on DVD on 18th August 2008, RRP £5.99.
Surprisingly sure of hands, a 25 year-old Hitchcock directed THE
PLEASURE GARDEN (PG). This is his directorial debut with his signature
edgy style already creeping into the style of the film. This is the
story of much tangled storylines between a small group of characters:
the two dancers, Patsy and Jill, working at the eponymous theatre The
Pleasure Garden, Jill’s fiancé Hugh, Patsy’s admirer and then husband
Mr. Levet. Newcomer Jill demonstrates surprising confidence and very
quickly establishes herself as the headliner at the theatre. Her fiancé
Hugh and his friend Mr. Levet are off to the East to seek their
fortune. Prior to their departure, a romance blooms between Patsy and
Mr. Levet, yet there are layers to this man of which Patsy is not aware
until the wedding papers are signed.
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