The man from the Isle of Man
| Movie | |
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| German title | The man from the Isle of Man |
| Original title | The Manxman |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| script | Eliot Stannard |
| production |
John Maxwell for British International Pictures |
| camera | John J. Cox |
| cut | Emile de Ruelle |
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The Man from the Isle of Man is a British romance drama by Alfred Hitchcock from 1929. The Manxman , as the film is called in the original, is based on the novel of the same name by the author Hall Caine , who himself came from the Isle of Man , on which the Plot of the novel and the film is set.
action
Simple fisherman Pete and educated lawyer Philip have been childhood friends but fall in love with the same woman named Kate. When Pete's marriage proposal is rejected by Kate's father because of his poverty, Pete leaves the island in search of money in the distance. Soon, however, he is considered dead. Thereupon Kate and Philip confess their mutual love and stormy passion. When Pete returns safe and sound, Kate finds herself forced to marry him and has a child, which is Philip's. Since she still loves him, she plans to flee with him. However, Philip, who is named the island's deemster at the time , refuses to go with her. Desperate Kate tries to take her own life. When she survives, she will be brought to justice because suicide is prohibited on Man . As luck would have it, an island custom made Philip her judge at this particular trial against her. He intends to see Kate return to Pete, but their relationship comes to light in the process. Kate and Philip leave the island with their child.
background
The Isle of Man is Hitchcock's last silent film . The exterior shots were not shot on the Isle of Man, but in Cornwall .
Anny Ondra is considered the first blonde in a Hitchcock film, the first representative of the type of woman whom Hitchcock mostly preferred in his Hollywood films. She and Hitchcock got along well personally, and she played another lead role in Hitchcock's first sound film Blackmail . The actor who played the fisherman Pete, Carl Brisson , had the leading role in the 1927 film Hitchcock's The World Champion . Malcolm Keen also appeared in the 1927 Hitchcock films The Mountain Eagle and The Tenant . Clare Greet , who plays Kate's mother in The Man from the Isle of Man , appeared in a total of five Hitchcock films, as well as in: The world champion , murder - Sir John intervenes! , Sabotage and reef pirates .
Michael Powell , who later became famous as a director, was involved in this film as a photographer of still images.
Reviews
The film magazine Bioscope wrote on January 23, 1929 of a work of "remarkable power and captivating character". (in: Donald Spoto: Alfred Hitchcock - The dark side of power )
Hitchcock's assessment
Hitchcock himself said in an interview with François Truffaut in 1962 : “The only interesting thing about The Manxman is that it was my last silent film. (...) The film was very banal and completely humorless (...) This is not a Hitchcock film . " (In Mr. Hitchcock, how did you do that? )
Web links
- The Manxman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Manxman at screenonline