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The Blackguard (German: Die Prinzessin und der Geiger) (1925) is a British-German drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Jane Novak, Walter Rilla, and Frank Stanmore.[1]

The Blackguard
Directed by	Graham Cutts
Written by	Alfred Hitchcock Adrian Brunel
Based on	The Blackguard by Raymond Paton
Produced by	Michael Balcon Erich Pommer
Starring	Jane Novak Walter Rilla Frank Stanmore Bernhard Goetzke
Cinematography	Theodor Sparkuhl
Production companies	Gainsborough Pictures UFA
Distributed by	Wardour Films (UK)
Release date	26 October 1925 (1925-10-26)
Countries	United Kingdom Germany
Languages	Silent film English intertitles German intertitles

Plot

Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, a violinist (Rilla) saves a princess (Novak) from execution.

Cast

Production

The film was a co-production between Gainsborough Studios and UFA initiating a decade-long series of co-productions which ended with the rise of the Nazi Party in the 1930s.[2] The film was based on the 1923 novel The Blackguard by Raymond Paton, and shot at Studio Babelsberg, in Potsdam near Berlin, the first time a Gainsborough film was shot abroad. The film was one of a number of films made in this genre during the 1920s, the most successful of which was the American film The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927).[3]

While working on the film, Alfred Hitchcock was able to study several films being made nearby, including The Last Laugh (1924) by F. W. Murnau, which were a major influence on his later work.

References

Bibliography

• Cook, Pam, ed. (1997). Gainsborough Pictures. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0-304-33708-8.
• Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.

External links

• The Blackguard at IMDb
• The Blackguard at the British Film Institute's Screenonline

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