The Pleasure Garden (1925)

Pretty Jill wants to be a dancer at The Pleasure Garden, but her cash and a letter of introduction were stolen. Luckily the worldly dancer Patsy takes her under her wing, get’s her that introduction, gives her a place to stay, and keeps an eye on her while her faithful fiancee Hugh takes an assignment overseas. What could go wrong? Meanwhile Patsy takes a liking to Hugh’s buddy Levet. Predictably, things don’t go as planned.

Here is Alfred Hitchcock’s oldest surviving film and first feature. It was filmed in 1925 but wasn’t distributed until after The Lodger became a big hit. The Amazon Prime copy is sixty minutes long so if IMDb is to be believed, there is a reel missing. I didn’t miss it.

I don’t have much to say about The Pleasure Garden. It mostly held my interest but it’s quite skipable and not at all Hitchcockian. I’ve chosen to be a Hitchcock competionist, but for the majority of viewers it won’t have much attraction. AMRU 2.5.