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Eliot Stannard

Born: 1 March 1888
Died: 21 November 1944

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  • The Pleasure Garden

    The Pleasure Garden

    Alfred Hitchcock’s directorial debut, made when he was 25, follows the love lives of two dancers at a London nightspot.

  • Easy Virtue

    Easy Virtue

    Alfred Hitchcock adapts Noël Coward’s melodrama about a divorced woman rejected by society.

  • Downhill

    Downhill

    Ivor Novello plays a schoolboy who is falsely accused of getting a girl pregnant and descends into disgrace, in Alfred Hitchcock’s dark melodrama.

  • The Manxman

    The Manxman

    Two men fall in love with the same woman in Alfred Hitchcock’s melodrama, set on the Isle of Man (though filmed in Cornwall).

  • Champagne

    Champagne

    Alfred Hitchcock directs the fizzy tale of a millionaire who pretends to lose his fortune to teach his wayward daughter a lesson.

  • The Lodger A Story of the London Fog

    The Lodger A Story of the London Fog

    A strange lodger may be a serial killer in Alfred Hitchcock’s first suspense thriller.

  • The Farmer's Wife

    The Farmer's Wife

    A housekeeper tries to find a suitable wife for a widowed landowner in a rare venture by Alfred Hitchcock into romantic comedy.

  • The Ring

    The Ring

    An Australian boxer threatens the relationship of a young fighter and his fiancée in Alfred Hitchcock’s superior melodrama.

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