His second wife
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | His second wife |
| Original title | The Prude's Fall |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1925 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Graham Cutts |
| script | Alfred Hitchcock |
| production |
Michael Balcon , Victor Saville , John Freedman ( Balcon-Saville-Freedman ) |
| camera | Hal Young |
| occupation | |
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His second wife (original title: The Prude's Fall ) is a British feature film by Graham Cutts from 1925. It is based on a play written by Rudolph Besier and May Edginton . In terms of film history, the film is particularly noteworthy because of Alfred Hitchcock's collaboration in various functions prior to his own career as a film director.
action
His second wife is a romantic drama about a French captain who is dating a rich widow.
background
The lack of usable memories or documents means that there is little and sometimes contradicting information about the circumstances surrounding the creation of his second wife . Alfred Hitchcock, who was involved in the film as a screenwriter , assistant director , and set designer , remembers the film in “ Mr. Hitchcock, how did you do that? “As his fifth and final collaboration with director Graham Cutts . The Hitchcock biography of John Russell Taylor follows this and dates the film to 1925, immediately after The Princess and the Violinist . In contrast, the Internet database IMDb dates the film to 1924 and ranks it as the third of the five collaborations between Cutts and Hitchcock, as does Donald Spoto in his Hitchcock biography. The former is supported by the fact that Hitchcock - asked by Taylor in a conversation with Hitchcock about the contradicting information - insisted on the former order and remembered related details of the production of the two films. The fact that His Second Wife , like the first two Cutts and Hitchcock films - Women to Woman and The Wide Shadow - was produced by Balcon-Saville-Freedman speaks for the other representation . In 1924, however, the collaboration between the three producers Michael Balcon , Victor Saville and John Freedman had apparently ended, and Balcon had founded the Gainsborough company, which in 1924 and 1925 made the films Marriage in Danger (The Passionate Adventure) and The Princess and the Violinist / The Blackguard produced.
The preparations and filming of His Second Wife took place under similarly turbulent circumstances as those for The Princess and the Violinist , which was filmed in Berlin and Babelsberg in 1924 and 1925 . Director Graham Cutts had - according to Hitchcock during the filming of The Princess and the violinist - with an Estonian , deposed dancer who was not allowed to enter the country to England, and was in French Calais stranded what the preparations for his second wife made it difficult. A production team headed by Hitchcock and his partner Alma Reville then went on a journey with Cutts and his lover, which took them from Calais via Paris , St. Moritz , Venice , Lake Como and back to St. Moritz, where they went to filming locations wanted to search for the planned film and where the film was to be shot - a journey that not least served the purpose of delaying Cutts' separation from his lover. The trip suffered under adverse conditions - unfavorable weather and escapades by Cutts and his companion - and was therefore canceled without result, so that the film was shot in the studio in England instead of on the original locations - apparently with a correspondingly disappointing result.
As in The Princess and the Violinist , the American silent film star Jane Novak played the lead role, who only came to Europe because she had been signed for two films. It's also worth knowing that Hitchcock and Alma Reville got engaged during the making of His Second Wife . Hitchcock - according to his stories - proposed marriage to Alma on a boat trip from Germany to England when she was seasick and therefore not very resistant in her cabin.
criticism
Due to the lack of information, nothing more is known about the shooting of the film than that, for example after John Russell Taylor, it was considered a failure and not a success.
Web links
- His second wife in the Internet Movie Database (English)