Blackmail / British International Pictures Ltd. presents ; directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock ; dialogue, Benn W. Levy ; produced by John Maxwell.
Edition:
Special edition.
Publisher:
Kino Lorber,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Ritchard, Hannah Jones, Sam Livesey. From the play by Charles Bennett. Originally released as a motion picture in 1929. Full screen (1.20:1) Special features: Audio commentary by Tim Lucas; HItchcock/Truffaut: Icon interviews (10:26 min., audio with slides); Silent version with score compiled by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (76 min.); introduction by Noël Simsolo (6:28 min.); Anny Ondra's screen test (1 min.); original trailers of some Hitchcock films.
Summary:
A thriller about a woman fighting off a sleazy blackmailer. The film was Hitchcock's first full-length sound film and was only his second foray into the suspense genre. Grocer's daughter Alice White kills a man in self-defense when he tries to sexually assault her. Her policeman boyfriend, Detective Frank Webber, covers up for her, but she has been spotted leaving the scene by a petty criminal who starts to blackmail her.
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