newspaper that Jill is to marry the Prince and he and Patsy soon realize that they love each other. Levet finds them together and accuses Hugh of making advances to his wife. Patsy agrees to follow Levet back to his bungalow in order to save Hugh. During the night, Levet is stricken with guilt and paranoia over the murder of his mistress and begins seeing ghostly visions of her. Levet becomes convinced that the ghost of his mistress will not stop haunting him until he murders Patsy too. Levet corners Patsy with a sword but he is shot dead before he can kill her. Hugh and Patsy find consolation with each other and return to London. Cast Virginia Valli as Patsy Brand Carmelita Geraghty as Jill Cheyne Miles Mander as Levet John Stuart as Hugh Fielding Ferdinand Martini as Mr. Sidey Florence Helminger as Mrs. Sidey Georg H. Schnell as Oscar Hamilton Karl Falkenberg as Prince Ivan Elizabeth Pappritz as Native Girl (uncredited) Louis Brody as Plantation Manager (uncredited) Production Hitchcock described the casting process thus: Producer Michael Balcon allowed Hitchcock to direct the film when Graham Cutts, a jealous executive at Gainsborough Pictures, refused to let Hitchcock work on The Rat. The film was shot in Italy (Alassio, Genoa and Lake Como) and Germany. Many misfortunes befell the cast and crew. When Gaetano Ventimiglia, the film's cinematographer, failed to declare the film stock to Italian customs officials, the team had to pay fines and buy new film, seriously depleting their budget. For the only time in a British Hitchcock production, both lead actresses, Virginia Valli and Carmelita Geraghty, were American. The film was shot in 1925 and shown briefly in London in April 1926. But it was not officially released in the UK until January 1927, just before Hitchcock's third film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, became a hit in February 1927. Production credits The production credits on the film were as follows: Director - Alfred Hitchcock Producer - Michael Balcon Writing - Eliot Stannard (screenplay), Oliver Sandys (underlying novel) Assistant director - Alma Reville Preservation and home video status In June 2012, The Pleasure Garden and eight other silent Hitchcock films were restored by the British Film Institute. As a result, 20 minutes of missing footage was added to this film, including "the atmospheric color tinting of the period". A new score was commissioned for