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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bennett, Charles, 1899-1995 (Author)
Corporate Author: British International Pictures (film production company,)
Other Authors: Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 (Screenwriter), Ondra, Anny (Actor), Longden, John, 1900-1971 (Actor), Paton, Charles, 1874-1970 (Actor), Allgood, Sara, 1883-1950 (Actor), Lucas, Tim (Commentator)
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:English
Language Notes:English dialogue; English subtitles (sound version); English intertitles (silent version).
Published: New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2019]
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.
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.