The Pleasure Garden

This just did nothing for me. Dry, dull, and rather messy, Alfred Htichcock's directorial debut is and will always be little more than a footnote or the answer to a bar trivia question. Other than the suddenly bonkers last five minutes, there's little here that anyone could claim to portend to Hitchcock's later excellence. There is something to the story of two dancers in a theater and the different paths their lives take, but the presentation is flat and uninteresting. If you're contemplating a Hitchcock run, start here so you can get it out of the way.