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Woman to Woman
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Directed byGraham Cutts
Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited)
Written byGraham Cutts
Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited)
Based onWoman to Woman
by Michael Morton
Produced byMichael Balcon
Victor Saville
StarringBetty Compson
CinematographyClaude McDonnell
Edited byAlma Reville
Distributed byWoolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date
  • August 1923 (1923-08)
Running time
82 minutes (8 reels; 7455 feet)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Woman to Woman is a 1923 British silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts, with Alfred Hitchcock as the uncredited assistant director and co-screenwriter.[1][2] The film was the first of three adaptions of the 1921 play Woman to Woman by Michael Morton. To capitalise on the success of the film, Cutts and Hitchcock made another film, The White Shadow, with Compson before she returned to the United States.[1]

Hitchcock met his future wife, Alma Reville, while working on this film.[3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[4] Deloryse, a dancer of exquisite charm and grace, is wooed and won by David Compton, an English officer billeted in Paris. On the eve of their marriage, her fiancée is unexpectedly called away. A blow to the head robs him of his memory and he forgets all about the faithful young woman who sacrificed all for him. Later, fate brings them together and, while the man's heart is wrung by the wrong that he has unwittingly done to Deloryse by marrying another woman, Deloryse's one thought is to protect the future of their son. For this, she sacrifices herself by dancing at a fete of the second woman in the case, even after a doctor had warned her that to do so would be fatal.

Cast

Preservation

As of August 2010, the film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Alfred Hitchcock Collectors' Guide: Miscellaneous British Films". Brenton Film. 15 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Woman to Woman". Silent Era. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Woman to Woman / BFI Most Wanted". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  4. ^ Simmons, Michael L. (26 January 1924). "Box Office Reviews: Woman to Woman". Exhibitors Trade Review. 15 (10). New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 25. Retrieved 22 July 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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