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The Manxman is a 1929 British silent romance film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, Carl Brisson and Malcolm Keen. The film is based on a popular 1894 romantic novel The Manxman by Hall Caine, which had previously been made into a film 13 years earlier. [1] It was the last fully silent production that Hitchcock directed ...
The Manxman: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen, Anny Ondra, Randle Ayrton. A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.
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- Drama, Romance
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1929-12-16
Jun 14, 2018 · The Manxman, starring Anny Ondra, Carl Brisson, and Malcolm Keen,is based on the popular 1895 Hall Caine novel of the same name from, adapted for the screen by Eliot Stannard (one of eight screenplays he wrote for Hitchcock). Pete (Brisson) and Philip (Keen) are best friends who live on the Island of Man. Pete is a poor fisherman, while Philip ...
- Manish Mathur
The film tells the story of two close childhood friends, a handsome but poor fisherman, Pete Quilliam (Carl Brisson), and a well-educated middle-class lawyer, Philip Christian (Malcolm Keen); Both the young men are smitten with beautiful and lively Kate (Anny Ondra), the pub owner's daughter. In Pete's case, Kate is also interested in him, or ...
Brief Synopsis. Read More. On the Isle of Man, two boyhood friends find themselves taking markedly different paths in adulthood: one becomes a fisherman, the other a lawyer. But both fall in love with the same woman, the daughter of a puritanical Methodist. This forces them to deal not only with their own moral code but also that of the strict ...
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Malcolm Keen
Popular reviews. More. theriverjordan ★★½ 33. Alfred Hitchcock’s final silent film, “Manxman” proves that the suspense of a well-built love triangle can equal that of any routine murder. “Manxman,” based on a popular novel of the time, is a play on class and manners. The story follows two close friends; one, a magistrate, the ...
Sir Hall Caine's "The Manxman", published in 1894, was one of his greatest successes, eventually selling over half a million copies. Several stage adaptations soon followed, along with a film adaptation in 1916 directed by George Loane Tucker and starring Henry Ainley and Adeline Hayden Coffin.
