Woman to Woman (1923 film)

  • Betty Compson: Louise Boucher / Deloryse
  • Clive Brook: David Compton / David Anson - Pond
  • Josephine Earle: Mrs. Anson - Pond
  • Marie Ault: Henrietta
  • Myrtle Peter Davy
  • Victor McLaglen: Nubian slave

Woman against woman is an English film directed by Graham Cutts from the year 1923. It is based on a stage play written by Michael Morton. Historical Significance film, the film mainly because of the collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock in various positions before his own career as a film director. He is considered lost.

Action

During the First World War was an English soldier during his vacation a brief relationship with a French dancer in Paris. Back in the war, he is wounded and loses his memory and the memory of his affair. He returned to England and married there. After a few years bathes the dancer who had waited in vain for him on with their son in England. The father takes the child, but for the dancer the story ends tragically.

Background

  • Woman to woman was the first of five films in which Hitchcock worked as an assistant director Graham Cutts and in various other functions. Until then, he had - apart from an unfinished film in which he had directed the film - mainly worked as a draftsman of intertitles for various silent films. He had noticed the producer Michael Balcon, Victor Saville and John Freedman, which leased the studios in which Hitchcock worked well. They hired him as an assistant director for Cutts as well as decorators and as a screenwriter.
  • One of the employees, who are also the company Balcon - Saville - Freedman joined and participated in woman against woman, was Hitchcock's future wife, Alma Reville, Like Hitchcock she practiced in the early days of film, when the specialization had not yet penetrated to certain functions several activities at the film from, among others, as a film editor and script girl.
  • A small role in woman against woman plays Victor McLaglen.

Reviews

In The Times of 12 November 1923 states, inter alia:

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