Blackmail
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 13, 2019
- Originally Released: 1929
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood & John Longden | |
| Performer: | Donald Calthrop, Hannah Jones & Cyril Ritchard | |
| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
| Edited by | Emile de Ruelle | |
| Screenwriting by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
| Original story by | Charles Bennett | |
| Director of Photography: | Jack Cox |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Blackmail is most draggy. It has no speed or pace and very little suspense.
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Variety
Blackmail marked Hitchcock's first use of sound, and it remains famous for its innovations in that area. But it's now more stimulating for its experiment with narrative structure.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/4 --
Overall, it's an essential early Hitchcock, showing the master confidently finding his stride.
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Combustible Celluloid
Blackmail incorporates some of Hitchcock's most complex, nastiest themes, digging deep into the psychological nature of trauma and drawing justice, personal autonomy, gendered expectations, and misogyny into question.
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Citizen Dame
A clearly cynical and even corrosive film. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Like most of his British films, Blackmail is a sign of things to come rather than Hitchcock at his height, but it shouldn't be missed.
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Chicago Reader
Blackmail is a better combination of the silent motion picture technique and the talkie technique than any other film we have seen.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
A film far ahead of its time, BLACKMAIL was the first sound picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film centers on a girl who is forced to kill a man, only to become investigated by her detective boyfriend. Hitchcock's bold experimentation with sound, his use of visual and aural repetitions, and his use of mirrors to create visual effects make this a seminal British film, based on the play by Charles Bennett.
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- UPC: 738329239015
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