365 Days. 365 Films.

This is a very, very early example of Hitchcock’s brilliance about an heiress who attempts to marry into money after her father tells her that he has lost all of their money. It is not a conventional Hitchcock plot based on what I have seen and heard of his work, although it is clear to see from the cinematography alone that it is a classic piece of work.

I have to admit that usually, silent films bore me unless it’s Laurel and Hardy or Charlie Chaplin – things like that, although this was not as bad as I thought it would be. I didn’t know it was going to be a silent film, since ‘talkies’ came about in 1927, and considering Hitchcock had already had some success in the business, I thought he would have adapted to sound – apparently not. Even so it’s no less enjoyable for the lack of dialogue, the filmmaking is brilliant and Hitchcock did very well to keep me interested for the full length of the film.