Blackmail

DVD - 2019

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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Genres
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Detective and mystery films
Feature films
Fiction films
Film adaptations
Published
New York, NY : Kino Lorber [2019]
Language
English
Corporate Author
British International Pictures
Corporate Author
British International Pictures (production company)
Other Authors
Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980 (film director), Benn W. (Benn Wolfe) Levy, 1900-1973 (screenwriter), Charles Bennett, 1899-1995 (film producer), John Maxwell, 1875-1940 (actor), Anny Ondra (-), John Longden, 1900-1971, Sara Allgood, 1883-1950, Charles Paton, 1874-1970, Donald Calthrop, 1888-1940, Cyril Ritchard, 1897-1977, Hannah Jones, 1872-1949, Sam Livesey, 1873-1936
Edition
Full screen
Item Description
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.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; NTSC, region 1; anamorphic, aspect ratio: 1.20:1; Dolby stereo.
Audience
Not rated.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Jack E. Cox ; editor, Emile de Ruelle ; music, Campbell & Connelly.