L'Homme de l'île de Man

Original title: The Manxman

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A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.

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6.2/10

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Anny Ondra

Kate Cregeen

Carl Brisson

Pete Quilliam

Malcolm Keen

Philip Christian

Randle Ayrton

Caesar Cregeen

Clare Greet

Mrs. Cregeen
(as Claire Greet)

Kim Peacock

Ross Christian
(uncredited)

Nellie Richards

Wardress
(uncredited)

Wilfred Shine

Doctor
(uncredited)

Harry Terry

Wedding Guest
(uncredited)

Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
Writers
- Hall Caine
- Eliot Stannard
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9/10

Formidable!

This film is one of the finest examples of how refined a medium silent cinema actually was. There is nothing clumsy or primitive in this one, the complicated, almost "soapy" story is told extremely fluently in images alone (with the help of the odd caption).

Granted it does not exhibit the same sort of liberated camera movements than Sunrise or The Crowd, but nevertheless The Manxman has sustained a degree of freshness totally missing from most of the early talkies.

Sorsimus
Oct 27, 2000
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Trivia
Two key lines in this movie have no intertitles, the viewer having to lip-read them. (At around one hour and four minutes) Kate reveals to Philip, "Philip, I am going to have a baby." Four minutes later, she reveals to her husband Pete, "I am going to have a baby."

Goofs
(at around 1 min) Philip puts his right hand in his pocket, but it is not in the pocket in the subsequent shot.

Quotes
[first title card]
Title Card: "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"

Alternate versions
There is an Italian edition of this film on DVD, " THE MANXMAN (1929) + BLACKMAIL (1929)", distributed by DNA Srl (2 Films on a single DVD), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.