The Pleasure Garden

The Pleasure Garden

1927 · 75 min · EN · 5.4 (58 votes)
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Starring Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander, John Stuart, George Snell, Frederic K. Martini
DramaRomance

Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the country, she begins to play around.

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A hauntingly beautiful silent film exploring the fragile nature of love and desire amidst the glittering, yet often harsh, world of early 20th-century entertainment. It's a poignant, visually striking journey through yearning and heartbreak.

melancholicwistfulromanticyearningslow-burnsilent filmearly cinemaexpressionisticmelodramaticlovebetrayalsocial classdesire
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