The Manxman (also known as The Manx-Man) is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by George Loane Tucker and starring Henry Ainley, Adeline Hayden Coffin and Will Corrie. It is based on the novel the 1894 novel of the same name by Hall Caine. A second, silent adaptation was released in 1929 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Upon its release in England in December 1916, The Manxman was a financial and critical success. It was one of the few British films released in the United States where it was also a hit. No known copies of the film are known to exist, and The Manxman destroyed of MGM Vault in 1967.
, 11minutes Directed byThomas H. Ince, George Loane Tucker OriginUSA GenresDrama ActorsMary Pickford, Owen Moore, Charles Arling, J. Farrell MacDonald, Lottie Pickford Rating54% The film opens in a fancy restaurant where the husband and a woman who is not his wife are polishing off a bottle of wine. Cut to home, where a dejected wife sits at the dining room table waiting for her husband. She briefly nods off before rousing and checking the wall clock indicating that it's getting late. Cut back to the fancy restaurant, where the husband settles the check with a large wad of bills. The waiter obliges by helping the husband and his lady companion with their hats and coats. The other woman kicks the husbands hat out of his hand.