The Manxman
- IMDb link: 0020142
- IMDb rating: 6.2 (3,637 votes)
- Genres: Drama, Romance
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast: Carl Brisson, Anny Ondra, Randle Ayrton, Malcolm Keen and others
- Release date: 16 Dec 1929
- Release year: 1929
- Runtime: 110 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom, Isle of Man
- Keywords: fisherman, lawyer, isle of man, newborn, friendship between men, based on novel, wife leaves her husband, forbidden romance, courtroom scene, loveless marriage
Plot:
In the Isle of Man, the fisherman Pete Quilliam and the lawyer Philip "Phil" Christian are best friends and raised as brothers since they were kids. When Pete wants to propose his girlfriend Kate Cregeen, who works at her father's tavern, Pete asks Phil to talk to her parents Caesar Cregeen and Mrs. Cregeen, but Caesar humiliates Pete and tells him that he is penniless and would not marry Kate. Pete decides to travel abroad to make fortune and asks Phil to take care of Kate. His aunt, who is from a family of Deemsters and raised him to be a Deemster, tells Phil that is not good for him to be seem with a girl that works in a tavern. When the islanders receive a message saying that Pete died, Kate, who has a crush on Phil, has a love affair with him. Soon they learn that Pete is returning rich and Kate wants to tell him their love affair, but Phil says that she must keep in secret. Pete immediately marries Kate and soon he learns that she will have a baby. But who is the father?