Hall Caine

The Manxman Hall Caine

This is a novel most generally associated with Hall Caine?s name. Two men, who love each other like David and Jonathan, are separated by the love each bears for the same woman, Kate Cregeen. The one is married to her, and the other, in circumstances of tragic temptation, she has been betrayed. Out of this complication come situations of searching pathos, culminating in a public confession and a great renunciation.

The scene throughout is the Isle of Man, and the deeply injured husband and friend, Pete Quilliam, has become one of the best-known figures in modern fiction and on the stage. Mr. Gladstone, who was a warm admirer of it, said, that though he disapproved of divorce, he recognised the integrity of the author?s aim. It is a love story of great intensity.

Hall Caine's novel 'The Manxman' was initially made into a movie in 1916, directed by George Loane Tucker. This silent was filmed on the island, possibly the first movie to be filmed there. However, the movie was later remade in 1929, under the same title, and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.