The Twenties

74 min., b/w.
Prod: Michael Balcon for Gainsborough and Erich Pommer for Emelka.
Scr: Elliot Stannard based on a novel by Oliver Sandys.
Ca: Baron Ventimiglia.
Ass: Alma Reville.
Cast: Virginia Vali (Patsy), Carmelita Geraghty (Jill), Miles Mander (Levett), John Stuart (Hugh), Nita Naldi (native girl).
Remark: Hitchcock's début as a director. The movie was restrained by the distributor, which meant it was released in 1927 (simultaniously with the second and third movie). The first nine movies were silent movies.

72 min., b/w.
Prod: Michael Balcon for Gainsborough and Erich Pommer for Emelka.
Scr: Elliot Stannard.
Ca: Baron Ventimiglia.
Cast: Bernard Goetzke (Pettigrew), Nita Naldi (Beatrice), Malcolm Keen (Fear o' God).
Remark: This is the only Hitchcock movie that seems to have disappeared - neither the original nor a copy has been found.

85 min., b/w.
Prod: Michael Balcon for Gainsborough.
Scr: Elliot Stannard based on a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes.
Ca: Baron Ventimiglia.
Ass: Alma Reville.
Cut: Ivor Montagu.
Cast: Ivor Novello (the lodger), June (Daisy), Marie Ault (her mother), Arthur Chesney (her father), Malcolm Keen (the detective).
Remark: This was his first thriller. In addition this movie proved to be his big chance; the distributor, C.M. Woolf, didn't think he was a good director that knew what the audience would like to watch, but Michael Balcon believed in him and gave him this very last chance, with some help from the famous cutter and filmtheorist Ivor Montagu - the movie was acclaimed by the audience and the critics, in addition the first two movies were released.

80 min., b/w.
Prod: Michael Balcon for Gainsborough.
Scr: Elliot Stannard based on a stage play by Ivor Novello and Constance Collier.
Ca: Claude McDonnell.
Cut: Ivor Montagu.
Cast: Ivor Novello (Roddy), Robin Irvine (Tim), Lillian Braithwaite (Lady Berwick).

73 min., b/w.
Prod: Michael Balcon for Gainsborough.
Scr: Elliot Stannard based on a stage play by Noel Coward.
Ca: Claude McDonnell.
Cut: Ivor Montagu.
Cast: Isabel Jeans (Larita), Franklin Dyall (her husband), Eric Bransby Williams (the painter), Robin Irvine (her new husband).

116 min., b/w.
Prod: John Maxwell for British International.
Scr: Alfred Hitchcock.
Ca: Jack Cox.
Ass: Alma Reville.
Cast: Carl Brisson (Jack), Lillian Hall Davis (Nellie), Ian Hunter (The Champion).
Remark: Hitchcock never wrote the scripts - as described in the Theory section - but this movie was one af the rare exceptions.

67 min., b/w.
Prod: John Maxwell for British International.
Scr: Elliot Stannard based on a stage play by Eden Philpotts.
Cast: Jameson Thomas (the farmer), Lillian Hall Davis (the young girl), Gordon Harker (Ash).

104 min., b/w.
Prod: John Maxwell for British International.
Scr: Elliot Stannard from an original story by Walter Mycroft.
Ca: Jack Cox.
Cast: Betty Belfour (Betty), Gordon Harker (her father), Ferdinand von Alten (the detective), Jean Bradin (the young man).

106 min., b/w.
Prod: John Maxwell for British International.
Scr: Elliot Stannard based on a novel by Hall Caine.
Ca: Jack Cox.
Cast: Carl Brisson (Peter), Malcolm Keen (Philip), Anny Ondra (Kate).

86 min., b/w.
Prod: John Maxwell for British International.
Scr: Charles Bennett and Benn Levy based on a stage play by Bennett.
Ca: Jack Cox.
Cast: Anny Ondra (Alice), John Longden (Frank), Cyrill Ritchard (the artist), Sara Allgood (Mrs. White), Charles Paton (Mr. White).
Remark: This was his first sound film. When the production began the movie was intended as a silent movie, but they changed their minds during production and made a sound film instead. This gave some problems since the leading actress Anny Ondra had a bad pronunciation, which forced Hitch to have a british actress speak the lines - the lines and the lips had to be synchronized at the set, since it wasn't possible to dub the lines in a sound studio in 1929. They actually made two versions of this movie: the sound film and a silent movie for cinemas without the expensive equipment needed for playing a sound film; the two movies are very dissimilar, with different scenes.