Description:
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.
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