Blackmail
Summary:
Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film utilized the new sound technology in a rather creative way off-camera. Hitchcock's lead actress, Anny Ondra, had a strong Eastern European accent that was difficult for English audiences to understand, so Hitchcock's solution was to have British actress Joan Barry speak Ondra's lines of dialogue off-camera. The film concerns a woman w... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Anny Ondra - (Alice White)
Sara Allgood - (Mrs. White)
Charles Paton - (Mr. White)
Donald Calthrop - (Tracy)
John Longden - (Frank Webber)
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Review:
Blackmail is Alfred Hitchcock's first talkie, and not a bad effort at all. The whole film was almost completed, when sound came in and revolutionized the industry; Hitchcock was forced to re-shoot some sequences and add others to make the film a mostly-talking film, something like Alan Crosland's The Jazz Singer (1927). Hitchcock'... Continue >>
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