Based on the 1923 novel of the same name by Oliver Sandys, the film is about two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre in London and their troubled relationships.

[2] Jill, a young dancer, arrives in London with a letter of introduction to Mr. Hamilton, proprietor of the Pleasure Garden Theatre.

Hitchcock described the casting process thus: Michael Balcon, who had conceived the idea of "importing" American stars long before anybody else, had engaged Virginia Valli for the leading role.

For the only time in a British Hitchcock production, both lead actresses, Virginia Valli and Carmelita Geraghty, were American.

However, it was not officially released in the UK until January 1927, just before Hitchcock's third film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, became a hit in February 1927.

[1] The production credits on the film were as follows: A review in an American film magazine called The Pleasure Garden a "sex picture wholely unsuitable for the exhibitor who aims to show good clean entertainment" with "many highly objectionable scenes", making it "not a picture to entertain American audiences".

[6] A new score was commissioned for the restoration by young British composer Daniel Patrick Cohen and it has been performed live with the film many times around the world.

[7] The only official DVD release contains a poor quality edited version of the film by US collector Raymond Rohauer.

According to critic Dave Kehr, The Pleasure Garden's opening scene stands like a virtual "clip reel of Hitchcock motifs to come".