Blackmail /
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,...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English dialogue; English subtitles (sound version); English intertitles (silent version). |
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New York, NY :
Kino Lorber,
[2019]
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| Edition: | Special edition. |
| Series: | KL studio classics.
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| 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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| Item Description: | Title from title screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1929; digitally restored by BFI and Studio Canal. Special features include an audio commentary by Tim Lucas ; Hitchcock/Truffaut: icon interviews (audio) ; the silent version of the film, score by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra ; introduction by Noël Simsolo ; Anny Ondra's screen test ; trailers. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodisc : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Blu-ray disc; region A; aspect ratio: 1.20:1; DTS sound format; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Audience: | Rating: Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Photography, Jack Cox ; editing, Emile de Roelle ; music score by [Jimmy] Cambell & [Reginald] Conelly, compiled and arranged by Hubert Bath and Hanry Stafford ; music performed by British International Symphony Orchestra, John Reynders, conductor. |