The Pleasure Garden

UK/Germany - 1925 - black and white

 

Written by:
Eliot Stannard

Based upon the novel by:
Oliver Sandys

Cinematography by:
Gaetano Ventimiglia

Production design by:
C.W. Arnold
Ludwig Reiber

Produced by:
Michael Balcon
Erich Pommer

Assistant director
Alma Reville

  Cast

Virginia Valli (Patsy Brand)

Carmelita Geraghty (Jill Cheyne)

Miles Mander (Levett)

John Stuart (Hugh Fielding)

Nita Naldi (native)

George Snell (Oscar Hamilton)

Karl Falkenberg (landlord)

Florence Helminger (his wife)

Ferdinand Martini (prince Ivan)

 

Patsy Brand works in a theater called "Pleasure Garden" as a dancer.
She marries Levett, soldier of fortune, who is going to reach English
colonies in the Tropics.
Before leaving for her honeymoon she meets Jill, the girlfriend of her
husband's friend Hugh. Thanks to Patsy's help, Jill starts working in the
theater.
Levett and Hugh move to the colonies and Patsy goes on with her life
in London. Jill easily forgets her boyfriend and lives a luxurious life.
When she finds out that her husband is ill, Patsy goes to the Tropics, but
she finds out that Levett is an alcoholist and he lives with a native. The girl
is very angry and leaves her husband. After the native's death Levett seems
to go mad and he tries to kill his wife.
The colonies' doctor has to kill him to save Patsy's life. The shocked girl
meets real love with Hugh.

 

 

 

 


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