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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- Subjects
- Genres
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Detective and mystery films
Feature films
Fiction films
Film adaptations - Published
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New York, NY :
Kino Lorber
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
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- Other Authors
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- 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.