The Blackguard
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Director Graham Cutts Screenplay Alfred Hitchcock Language English, German | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama Production Gainsborough Pictures Country United Kingdom
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Writer Alfred Hitchcock , Adrian Brunel Release date 26 October 1925 (1925-10-26) Producers Michael Balcon, Erich Pommer Cast Jane Novak , Walter Rilla , Bernhard Goetzke , Frank Stan Similar movies Related Graham Cutts movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Blackguard (German: Die Prinzessin und der Geiger) (1925) is a British-German drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Jane Novak, Walter Rilla, and Frank Stanmore.
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Plot
Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, a violinist (Rilla) saves a princess (Novak) from execution.
Production
The film was a co-production between Gainsborough Studios and UFA initiating a decade-long series of co-productions which ended with the rise of the Nazi Party in the 1930s. The film was based on the novel The Blackguard by Raymond Paton, and shot at Studio Babelsberg, in Potsdam near Berlin, the first time a Gainsborough film was shot abroad. The film was one of a number of films made in this genre during the 1920s, the most successful of which was the American film The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927).
While working on the film, Alfred Hitchcock was able to study several films being made nearby, including The Last Laugh (1924) by F. W. Murnau, which were a major influence on his later work.
Cast
References
The Blackguard WikipediaThe Blackguard IMDb