gave Hitchcock an opportunity to direct his first feature film – The Pleasure Garden (1925). However, the movie flopped threatening Hitchcock with obscurity but he bounced back with The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) the following year which was a major critical and commercial success. On 2 December 1926, Hitchcock married his assistant director Alma Reveille, their only child, Patricia was born on 7 July 1928. Alma was to become Hitch’s closest collaborator, she wrote some of his screenplays and though often unaccredited worked with him on every one of his films. His 1929 feature Blackmail was one of the UK’s first sound pictures, the climax of the film took place on the dome of the British Dome beginning a Hitchcockian trend of shooting around famous landmarks.
From 1933, he was once again working with Michael Balcon at Gaumont-British Picture