Juno and the Paycock (film)
- Sara Allgood: Juno
- Edward Chapman: Captain Boyle
- Sidney Morgan: Joxer
- Máire O'Neill: Mrs. Madigan
- Barry Fitzgerald: "The Orator "
- John Longden: Charles Bentham
- Donald Calthrop: Needle Nugent
- John Laurie: Johnny Boyle
Juno and the Paycock is the original title of an English feature film, the 1930 Alfred Hitchcock turned. In the U.S., the film was shown under the alternative title The Shame of Mary Boyle. A German title has not the movie so far. Juno and the Paycock is based on the stage play of the same name (German Juno and the Peacock ) of the Irish author Sean O'Casey.
Action
Juno and the Paycock telling of everyday life and the economic problems of the Irish working class family Boyle and how it is drawn from the civil war for the independence of Ireland affected.
Background
- Juno and the Paycock is - apart from the revue Elstree Calling, in the Hitchcock one of the four directors was - Hitchcock's second sound film.
- Hitchcock had seen the stage play Juno and the Paycock in the performance of the Irish National Theatre, Abbey Theatre, and was impressed. In connection with the planned film version of the play, he learned its author Sean O'Casey know personally, and they both got on well. Another joint project was planned, but not realized.
- Among the supporting cast are John Longden and Donald Calthrop, who played along in five or four other films Hitchcock.
- His second film appearance was in Juno and the Paycock, the Irish actor and future Oscar winner Barry Fitzgerald
- The screenplay is by Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville. They held closely to the template. The reason for this was the fact that Hitchcock seemed impossible to transform complex literature appropriate to their wishes cinematic form. Accordingly, Hitchcock was dissatisfied with the work and its result, although the film contains some of Hitchcock's cinematic ideas.
Reviews
Assessment Hitchcock
" I photographed the piece as imaginative as possible, but from the creative point of view, that was not a pleasant experience, the film will then get very good reviews, but [ ... ] I am really ashamed, because with theater that had everything to nothing do it. " (Alfred Hitchcock in an interview with François Truffaut in Mr. Hitchcock, how did you do that? )