| | "The Pleasure Garden" 1926 |
 | | Jill breaks with her fiancé Hugh Fielding (John Stuart) who is in the Tropics. |
 | | In 1925 Michael Balcon joined with the German director Erich Pommer to produce "The Blackguard," and that was followed by two other ("The Pleasure Garden" and "The Mountain Eagle") films in collaboration with one of the large German studios, the Emelka Company, at its Munich studios. |
 | | Balcon assigned young Alfred Hitchcock to serve as his art director, screenwriter, and assistant director, and Balcon also gave Hitchcock his first job as a director. |
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