The Manxman

The Manxman (1929)

The screen's supreme masterpiece!

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

Date of release
1929-01-18
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (95)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Alfred Hitchcock

Casting

Interesting facts

The Manxman is a 1929 British silent romance film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, Carl Brisson and Malcolm Keen. The film is based on a popular 1894 romantic novel The Manxman by Hall Caine, which had previously been made into a film 13 years earlier. It was the last fully silent production that Hitchcock directed before he made the transition to sound film with his next film Blackmail (1929).

Production

The Manxman began filming on the Isle of Man, but Hitchcock eventually relocated production to Polperro, Cornwall due to frequent creative interference from author Hall Caine, who lived on the Isle of Man. Other scenes were shot at British International Pictures' Elstree Studios, to which Caine was invited to observe. The director began work on the film just two weeks after the birth of his daughter Patricia Hitchcock.

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