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The Pleasure Garden
The Pleasure Garden

                        

          Chorus girl Patsy Brand
(Virginia Valli) works at a music hall named The Pleasure Garden.  As the story begins, Patsy helps Jill (Carmelita Geraghty) obtain a job at the music hall.  There Jill meets Hugh (John Stuart).  Hugh makes Jill his fiancé but soon departs to the Tropics, to work as a mercenary.  Jill remains at The Pleasure Garden.

          Left to her own devices, Jill exceeds in both business and pleasure.  She is soon mistress to at least one of the dashing men-about-town who frequent the music hall.   

          Meanwhile, Patsy marries a friend of Hugh's named Levett (Miles Mander).   Shortly after the honeymoon, Levett also travels to the Tropics.   Patsy follows after Levett and the plot unfolds.   By the end, Levett ends up dead and Hugh ends up with Patsy.

         Based on a novel by Oliver Sandys.

 Production: Michael Baleen (Gainsborough), Erich Pommer (Emelka-G.B.A. 1925). Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Eliot Stannard, from-the novel by Oliver Sandys. Director of Photography: Baron Vintigmilia. Assistant Director and script-girl: Alma Reville. Studio: Emelka at Munich. Distributors: Wardour & F., 1925, 6,458 feet; USA, Aymon Independent, 1926. Principal Actors: Virginia Valli (Patsy Brand, the dancer), Carmelita Geraghty (Jill Cheyne), Miles Mander (Levett), John Stuart (Hugh Fielding), Frederic K. Martini, Florence Helminger, George Snell, C. Falkenburg.

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