{"id":10690,"date":"2010-02-06T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=10690"},"modified":"2020-11-24T12:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T19:58:36","slug":"pleasure-garden-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=10690","title":{"rendered":"Pleasure Garden (1925)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;That girl knows exactly what she&#8217;s doing &#8212; and she likes it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Poster-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-54458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Poster-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Poster-657x1024.png 657w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Poster-82x128.png 82w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Poster-173x270.png 173w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Poster.png 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn aspiring dancer (Carmelita Geraghty) befriends a kind chorus girl (Patsy Brand) who falls for the duplicitous friend (Miles Mander) of Geraghty&#8217;s upstanding fiance (John Stuart); meanwhile, the socially climbing Geraghty leaves Stuart behind for a chance to marry a prince (Karl Falkenberg).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aspiring Stars<\/li>\n<li>Hitchcock Films<\/li>\n<li>Marital Problems<\/li>\n<li>Silent Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nHitchcock&#8217;s first feature film as a director &#8212; made after years of working as a title designer, set designer, writer, and assistant director &#8212; is a rather standard romantic melodrama distinguished only by the occasional evidence it provides of Hitch&#8217;s incipient creative genius. The storyline (based on a novel by Oliver Sandys) is frustratingly disparate: at first we believe we&#8217;re watching a movie about an ingenue (Geraghty) struggling to gain a foothold in the entertainment business, only to quickly realize that Geraghty is savvier and more calculating than she appears, at which point Brand inexplicably becomes the film&#8217;s primary protagonist, as we follow her romantic travails, and watch her eventual betrayal by a man she senses (well, her <em>dog<\/em> senses!) may not be as forthright as he appears. With exotic infidelity, madness, and murder thrown in for good measure, the result is basically a jam-packed 60-minute potboiler. With that said, as noted above, <em>Pleasure Garden<\/em> is primarily of interest for the glimpses it affords of Hitchcock&#8217;s early directorial sensibility at work; see the <a href=\"http:\/\/dkholm.typepad.com\/cinemonkey\/2010\/01\/hitchcocks-films-no-1-the-pleasure-garden.html\">CineMonkey review<\/a> for a detailed analysis of themes and motifs which foreshadow many of Hitchcock&#8217;s later films. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incipient evidence of Hitchcock&#8217;s creative genius<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Still2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Still2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1247\" height=\"917\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Still2.png 1247w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Still2-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Still2-1024x753.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Still2-128x94.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Still2-768x565.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pleasure-Garden-Still2-367x270.png 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1247px) 100vw, 1247px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; this one will really only be of interest to Hitchcock fans. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0016230\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allmovie.com\/work\/the-pleasure-garden-106253\">All Movie Guide Review (spoiler alert)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dkholm.typepad.com\/cinemonkey\/2010\/01\/hitchcocks-films-no-1-the-pleasure-garden.html\">Cinemonkey Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That girl knows exactly what she&#8217;s doing &#8212; and she likes it.&#8221; Synopsis: An aspiring dancer (Carmelita Geraghty) befriends a kind chorus girl (Patsy Brand) who falls for the duplicitous friend (Miles Mander) of Geraghty&#8217;s upstanding fiance (John Stuart); meanwhile, the socially climbing Geraghty leaves Stuart behind for a chance to marry a prince (Karl Falkenberg). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Aspiring Stars Hitchcock Films Marital Problems Silent Films Review: Hitchcock&#8217;s first feature film as a director &#8212; made after&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=10690\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54461,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions\/54461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}