The Manxman

The Manxman

Synopsis

In a remote Isle of Man fishing community, two men, friends since childhood, find themselves in love with the same woman. Rejected by the girl's father, Pete (Carl Brisson) leaves to find his fortune in Africa, and Philip (Malcolm Keen) sees his chance with Kate (Anny Ondra).

The Manxman was adapted from a novel by Sir Hall Caine and is notable as Hitchcock's final collaboration with writer Eliot Stannard, whose credit appears on all but one of his silent films, and as Hitchcock's final silent film.

"The only point of interest about that movie is that it was my last silent one. [...] the picture was the adaptation of a very well-known book by Sir Hall Caine. The novel had quite a reputation and it belonged to a tradition. We had to respect that reputation and that tradition. It was not a Hitchcock movie..." – Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock: The Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock (Francois Truffaut, 1967, 61)