Alfred Hitchcok - Tabarin Di Lusso (192 [DVD5 PAL]





Original title Champagne

Country of manufacture United Kingdom

Year 1928

Duration 86 min

Technical data B / N

ratio: 1.33: 1

silent film

Drama

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Subject Walter C Mycroft

Screenplay Eliot Stannard, Alfred Hitchcock

Producer John Maxwell

British International Pictures production company

Photograph Jack E. Cox

Editing Alfred Hitchcock

Set Design C. Willard Arnold



Interpreters and characters



   Betty Balfour: Betty

   Jean Bradin: the boy

   Vivian Gibson

   Gordon Harker: Betty's father

   Clifford Heatherley: the manager

   Jack Trevor: the officer

   Marcel Vibert: Maitre d'Hotel

   Ferdinand von Alten: baron

   Theo von Alten: the man

   Alexander D'Arcy

   Claude Hulbert: a guest

   Phyllis Konstam





Luxury Tabarin (Champagne) is a 1928 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.





A first version of the original Champagne story was written by Hitchcock himself, at the request of British International who had commissioned him a star-vehicle for Betty Balfour, the house's number one star at the time. Hitchcock writes a story with a circular structure that revolves around a girl from the French province. She earns her living by packing crates of champagne, loses the right path by tasting the contents of those bottles, goes to Paris, where she is "ruined", ends up on the sidewalk and finally returns home and to her old job, forever hating the mere sight. some champagne. At the production, the story seemed too serious and moralistic for the effervescent diva of the house, Balfour being appreciated above all as a brilliant actress, therefore Hitchcock rewrote the whole affair with his friend Walter Mycroft, completing a script that, like himself he later scornfully claimed, it was quite devoid of plot. The heroine, in the new version, becomes a wealthy heiress who suddenly finds herself forced to fend for herself when her father pretends to have failed to teach her a lesson. Here, too, there are brilliant comic ideas and the idea of ​​a quarrel that begins in earnest and turns into farce, which Hitchcock was forced to discard for Downhill, is resumed here with a quarrel aboard a ship completely upset by the rolling of the waves. The film is still remembered today above all for a single shot, immortalized in a still famous scene photo, in which a potential employer, during an interview, carelessly lifts the skirt of the protagonist with the tip of his shoe to look at her veiled legs. from the silk stockings.