Juno & the Paycock (1930)
Juno & the Paycock (1930), adapted and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
One of Hitchcock's least-liked early movies, it's a filmed version of Sean O'Casey's stage play and a chore to get through. The wikipedia has a plot summary.
From the Hitchcock/Truffaut interviews:
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AH: I could see no way of narrating the play in cinematic form. The film got good notices, but I was actually ashamed because it had nothing to do with cinema.
FT: Critics generally tend to assess a picture on the basis of its literary quality rather than its cinematic value.
"Paycock" is dialect for "peacock", Juno's sarcastic name for her shiftless husband.
