Synopsis
The Manxman (1929) — watch online on iFILM. Alfred Hitchcock's final silent feature, adapted from Hall Caine's 1894 novel, sets two lifelong friends against each other over the same woman on the Isle of Man. Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen and Anny Ondra star.
Pete, a fisherman, leaves to earn enough money to marry Kate and asks his closest friend Philip — a lawyer moving up — to look after her in the meantime. Philip and Kate grow close. When Pete comes back wealthy and ready to wed, there is no clean way out for any of them.
Hitchcock shot on location rather than studio sets, and the island's harbours and stone streets give the melodrama a grounded weight unusual for the period. Anny Ondra moved straight from this into Blackmail, Hitchcock's first talkie. Watch The Manxman online on iFILM.
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