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. Patsy, a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden Theater, marries Levett, a soldier of fortune. Before her honeymoon she meets Jill, the girlfriend of her husband's friend Hugh, and gets her a job as a chorus girl too. After the honeymoon, Levett and Hugh leave for the tropics while Patsy and Jill stay in London. Jill cheats on Hugh with other men. Hearing Levett is ill,... Patsy goes to the tropics. She discovers he is an alcoholic living with a native woman and leaves him. Levett murders the native woman and tries to murder Patsy, but she is rescued. She returns to London and starts a relationship with Jill's ex-boyfriend Hugh. Producer Michael Balcon allowed Hitchcock to direct the film when Graham Cutts, a jealous executive at Gainsborough Pictures, refused to let Hitchcock work on The Rat. The film was shot in Italy and Germany. Many misfortunes befell the cast and crew.
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| Release date: | November 3, 1925 |
| Directed by: | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Runtime: | 75 Minutes |
| Producer: | Michael Balcon, Erich Pommer |
| Editor: | Alma Reville |
| Music by: | Lee Erwin |
| Cinematography: | Gaetano di Ventimiglia |
| Screenplay by: | Eliot Stannard |
| Adapted from: | The Pleasure Garden |