The Prude's Fall
- Jane Novak: Beatrice Audley
- Julanne Johnston: Sonia Roubetsky
- Warwick Ward: Andre le Briquet
- Hugh Miller: Marquis de Rocqueville
- Gladys Jennings: Laura Westonry
- Miles Mander: Sir Neville Moreton
His second wife ( Original title: The Prude 's case ) is an English film directed by Graham Cutts from 1924 is based on a report drawn up by Rudolph Besier and May Edginton stage play. . Historically noteworthy film is the film mainly because of the collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock in various positions before his own career as a film director.
Action
His second wife is a romantic drama about a French captain who anbandelt with a rich widow.
Background
The lack of marketable memories or documents means that there are few and partly contradictory information also to the circumstances of the production of his second wife. Alfred Hitchcock, who was involved in the film as a scriptwriter, assistant director, and set designer, remembers the film "Mr. Hitchcock, how did you do that? " Than his fifth and last collaboration with director Graham Cutts. The Hitchcock Biography John Russell Taylor and follows the dates the film to 1925, immediately after The Princess and the violinist. In contrast, the Internet database IMDb dates the film to 1924 and ranks him as the third of five collaborations between Cutts and Hitchcock, Donald Spoto as Hitchcock in his biography. For the former, is the fact that Hitchcock - addressed by Taylor in an interview with Hitchcock on the contradictory information - insisted on the former order and remembered related details of production of the two films. For the other representation is the fact that his second wife as well as the first two films of Hitchcock and Cutts - Women to Woman and The Wide Shadow - was produced by the company Balcon - Saville - Freedman. 1924 but apparently the cooperation between the three producers Michael Balcon, Victor Saville and John Freedman had finished, and Balcon had founded the company in Gainsborough, the 1924 and 1925 films marriage in danger ( The Passionate Adventure) and The Princess and the Geiger / The Black Guard produced.
The preparation and filming of his second wife were held under similar circumstances turbulent, such as those to The Princess and the violinist, in 1924 and 1925 shot in Berlin and Babelsberg. Director Graham Cutts had - according to Hitchcock during the filming of The Princess and the violinist - with an Estonian dancer who was not allowed to enter the country to England, deposed, and was stranded in the French Calais, which complicated the preparations for his second wife. Then a production team led by Hitchcock and his partner, Alma Reville with Cutts and his lover went on a journey that from Calais via Paris, St. Moritz, Venice, Lake Como, and again led back to St. Moritz, where she for locations 're looking for the planned movie, and where the film should also be rotated - a journey, but not least served the purpose of delaying the separation of Cutts of his beloved. The trip was suffering under adverse conditions - unfavorable weather and antics of Cutts and his companion - and was therefore aborted without result, so that the film held on location in the studio in England was shot - apparently with correspondingly disappointing result.
As in The Princess and the violinist played the American silent film star Jane Novak, the main role that had only come to Europe because they had ordered the same for two films. Knowledge is also significant that Alma Reville Hitchcock and engaged during the formation time of his second wife. Hitchcock made - according to his stories - Alma the marriage proposal on a boat trip from Germany to England when she was seasick and therefore little resistance in her cabin.
Criticism
Due to lack of information is not known about the shooting of the film, as he, for example, by John Russell Taylor, as failed and was not a success was.