Champagne (1928)

CHAMPAGNE  (1928)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Alfred Hitchcock
    Betty Balfour, Jean Bradin,
    Theo von Alten, Gordon Harker
The fortunes of a party-loving heiress take a tumble when she learns her father has lost everything in the stock market. A routine silent melodrama with some nice visual touches and a lively lead performance by British flapper Betty Balfour. It's a long way from terrible, but with a script that was being cobbled together on the spot, it lacks the director's usual premeditated control. Hitchcock hated working on it, and considered it his least significant work.