The Manxman (1929) on Netflix
Two friends from childhood, the fisherman Pete Quilliam and the lawyer Philip Christian, both love Kate Cregeen, whose father owns the village pub. Pete has no money, and her father refuses.
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Plot summary
Pete Quilliam is a fisherman with no money, and Philip Christian is a well educated lawyer. The two are close friends from childhood, like brothers, and both are in love with Kate Cregeen, whose father Caesar owns the village pub. Kate enjoys having Pete as a suitor. Pete proposes, and he asks Philip to put his case to her father. Caesar refuses, since Pete is penniless. Pete decides he must go to Africa and build a fortune there so that he can be considered a fit husband, and he asks whether Kate will wait for him. At first she jokes, but then she says yes. Pete asks Philip to look after Kate while he is away.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Manxman (1929)
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- Hitchcock moved The Manxman's shoot from the Isle of Man to Polperro in Cornwall because the novel's author, Hall Caine, who lived on the island, kept interfering with the production.
- The Manxman was the last fully silent film Hitchcock directed; his next, Blackmail (1929), marked his transition to sound.
- The Manxman was restored in 2012 as part of the BFI's £2 million "Save the Hitchcock 9" project, which restored all of Hitchcock's surviving silent films.
