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Champagne

1928 · GB

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock, BIP, 1928. A spoiled girl (Betty Balfour) is cut off by her father and sent to learn what money is. She ends up waiting tables in a Paris club her father has arranged. Hitchcock later ranked it among the jobs he did not like. One image stays: action seen through the bottom of a champagne glass, the frame going fisheye. Walter Mycroft supplied the story. The plot is thin. The lens is not.

Comedy · Drama

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1928 · Source: DonaldPBorchersOG

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In Early Hitchcock

Cast & Crew

Alfred Hitchcock · DirectorBetty Balfour · BettyGordon Harker · Mark

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Champagne
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Beginner's Guide to Alfred Hitchcock: Champagne (1928) — Talk Film Society

Guide to Hitchcock's lesser-known comedy and parental control themes.

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Champagne (1928) | BFI — British Film Institute

BFI essay on Hitchcock's visual experimentation in this silent comedy.

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Cast

Principal players
Betty Balfour

Betty Balfour

Betty

G

Gordon Harker

Mark

J

Jean Bradin

The Boy

F

Ferdinand von Alten

The Man

F

Fanny Wright

(uncredited)

Alexander D'Arcy

Alexander D'Arcy

(uncredited)

Vivian Gibson

Vivian Gibson

(uncredited)

Clifford Heatherley

Clifford Heatherley

Maitre d' (uncredited)

Claude Hulbert

Claude Hulbert

Club Guest (uncredited)

Hannah Jones

Hannah Jones

Club Employee (uncredited)

Phyllis Konstam

Phyllis Konstam

(uncredited)

G

Gwen Mannering

(uncredited)

Jack Trevor

Jack Trevor

The Officer (uncredited)

M

Marcel Vibert

The Butler (uncredited)

Sunday Wilshin

Sunday Wilshin

(uncredited)

Crew

Alfred Hitchcock

writer

Jack E. Cox

cinematographer

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