This Alfred Hitchcock outing is no longer covered by copyright and is thus available on at least 5 DVD labels.
I recommend the St Clair Vision DVD, which has a reasonable music score and at least 9/10 image quality (probably 10/10 considering the movie was photographed by Jack Cox. Jack absolutely doted on grays, but hated pure blacks and pure whites).
Mind you, "The Manxman" has little to recommend it, other than its novelty value. All told, it is a dreary movie with very few Hitchcock touches. What is worse, it's way over-acted by the main players, particularly smiling, over-hearty Carl Brisson and determined-to-be-dull Malcolm Keen.
On the other hand, I enjoyed Anny Ondra;s performance, despite the fact that she was tied up, pouting and glum, in a web that took forever for the various characters to pace through.
All told, "The Manxman" relied on a familiar (but fatally flawed in this account as the hero is believed dead), melodramatic plot, set against a realistic background on the Isle of Man.
I recommend the St Clair Vision DVD, which has a reasonable music score and at least 9/10 image quality (probably 10/10 considering the movie was photographed by Jack Cox. Jack absolutely doted on grays, but hated pure blacks and pure whites).
Mind you, "The Manxman" has little to recommend it, other than its novelty value. All told, it is a dreary movie with very few Hitchcock touches. What is worse, it's way over-acted by the main players, particularly smiling, over-hearty Carl Brisson and determined-to-be-dull Malcolm Keen.
On the other hand, I enjoyed Anny Ondra;s performance, despite the fact that she was tied up, pouting and glum, in a web that took forever for the various characters to pace through.
All told, "The Manxman" relied on a familiar (but fatally flawed in this account as the hero is believed dead), melodramatic plot, set against a realistic background on the Isle of Man.