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6.4/10   592 votes
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Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Hall Caine (novel)
Eliot Stannard (scenario)
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Release Date:
16 December 1929 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance | Thriller more
Plot:
A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
PROFICIENT, BUT RATHER ANONYMOUS HITCHCOCK more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Certification:
Finland:K-16 (1995) | UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (1990) | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG

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Trivia:
Alfred Hitchcock's last silent film. more
Quotes:
[first title card]
Title Card: "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"
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Version of The Manxman (1916) more

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9 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
PROFICIENT, BUT RATHER ANONYMOUS HITCHCOCK, 13 November 2001
Author: bensonj from New York, NY

Hitchcock's last silent is totally proficient, equal or superior to countless contemporary Hollywood romantic triangles (here, a fisherman, a lawyer and the publican's daughter). The story is less than satisfactory since the lawyer gets the girl pregnant at a time when he believed his rival was dead; no one acknowledges this vital extenuating circumstance or explains it to the fisherman in the final denouement. But what's really disappointing is that the three principals (and the girl's father) are virtually the only roles in the film, and their characters are developed strictly from the necessity of the plot. There are few Hitchcock touches, either character or visual. There are no minor characters or bits of business that demonstrate the sharp observation and sly humor that is in just about all of Hitchcock's other films of the period, and it's therefore one of his most impersonal films.

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