Blackmail /

Blackmail: "When Frank's job at Scotland Yard comes between them, Alice accepts a date with another man. The handsome artist invites Alice to pose for a portrait but then tries to assault her. She kills him in self defense ..."--Container.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Bennett, Charles, 1899-1995 (Author), Coward, Noel, 1899-1973 (Author)
Corporate Authors:	British International Pictures, Wardour Films, Gainsborough Studios, Cobra Entertainment
Other Authors:	Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 (Director, Screenwriter), Levy, Benn W. (Benn Wolfe), 1900-1973 (Screenwriter), Longden, John, 1900-1971 (Actor), Allgood, Sara, 1883-1950 (Actor), Ondra, Anny (Actor), Jeans, Isabel, 1891-1985 (Actor), Dyall, Franklin (Actor), Williams, Eric Bransby (Actor), Woolf, C. M., Balcon, Michael, 1896-1977
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	English Spanish Chinese Japanese
Language Notes:	First feature in English; second is silent with English intertitles; both have optional subtitles in Spanish, Japanese and Chinese.
Published:	Los Angeles, Calif. : Cobra Entertainment, [2011]
Edition:	Special ed.
Subjects:	Man-woman relationships > Drama. Criminal investigation > England > 20th century > Drama. Women > England > Social conditions > 20th century. Abused women > Drama. Rape victims > Drama. Detective and mystery plays. Fugitives from justice > Drama. Bennett, Charles, > 1899-1995 > Film adaptations. Coward, Noel, > 1899-1973 > Film adaptations. Murder > Drama. Feature films. Silent films. Fiction films. Detective and mystery films. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Melodramas (Motion pictures) Foreign films. Motion pictures, British.

Description
Summary:	Blackmail: "When Frank's job at Scotland Yard comes between them, Alice accepts a date with another man. The handsome artist invites Alice to pose for a portrait but then tries to assault her. She kills him in self defense ..."--Container. Easy virtue: A melodrama in which Larita is an unhappily married socialite with a lover. When her husband discovers her infidelity, they divorce and she is marked as a woman of loose morals. Her reputation is not enhanced by her marriage to a younger man whose family disapproves.
Item Description:	Duration statement on container (approximately 165 min.) indicates lengths of both films. Blackmail originally produced as a motion picture in 1929. Easy virtue originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1927. Blackmail based on the play by Charles Bennett; Easy virtue based on the play by Noel Coward. Includes an introduction by Tony Curtis and original theatrical trailer from Rear window. Blackmail: "From the play by Charles Bennett." Blackmail: originally released as a motion picture in 1929. Easy virtue: originally released as a silent motion picture in 1927. Duration statement on container (approximately 165 min.) includes the duration of both films. Special features include an introduction by Tony Curtis and a bonus clip of the original theatrical trailer from Hitchcock's film, "Rear Window", with James Stewart and Grace Kelley. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Format:	Blackmail: DVD-R; NTSC, all regions; aspect ratio: 1.33:1; Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound formats. Easy virtue: DVD-R; NTSC, all regions; aspect ratio: 1.33:1; silent.
Production Credits:	Blackmail: produced by John Maxwell; dialogue, Benn Levy ; photography, Jack Cox ; film editor, Emile de Ruelle ; musical score by Campbell and Connelly ; compiled and arranged by Hubert Bath and Harry Staffard. Easy virtue: Noel Coward, play; Eliot Stannard, scenario; cinematography, Claude L. McDonnell; editing, Ivor Montagu.