Hitchcock Chronology: Gainsborough Pictures

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Gainsborough Pictures...

1924

July

• Gainsborough Pictures' The Passionate Adventure premiers.

September

• Filming of The Blackguard is completed in Berlin and the Gainsborough Pictures staff, including Alma and Alfred, return to London.
• Graham Cutts, Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville arrive Berlin to film The Blackguard, a joint production between Gainsborough Pictures and the Ufa Studios.

1925

December

• Gainsborough Pictures announce that, upon his return from Munich where he is filming The Mountain Eagle, Hitchcock will direct The Lodger.

1926

January

• 5th - The Times carries a report that Gainsborough Pictures are planning to make six films during 1926, including The Pleasure Garden, The Mountain Eagle and an adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes' The Lodger.
• 30th - The press begin reporting Gainsborough Pictures' announcement that Ivor Novello will star in The Lodger.

May

• The editing of The Lodger is completed. However, due to concerns voiced within the company about the film's commerical appeal, Gainsborough recruits Ivor Montagu to tigten up the editing and flow of the film. Montagu reduces the number of intertitles and hires avant garde graphic designer E. McKnight Kauffer to create a new opening title sequence.

1927

January

• Gainsborough Pictures announces that Alfred Hitchcock will direct Downhill.

June

• Hitchcock leaves Gainsborough Pictures and signs a new contract with British International Pictures.

1958

September

• 7th - British film director Graham Cutts, who worked with the young Hitchcock at Gainsborough Pictures in the 1920s, dies aged 72.