Blackmail (1929)

Review: Blackmail (1929)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop,

Anny Ondra
Anny Ondra
Sara Allgood
Sara Allgood
Charles Paton
Charles Paton
John Longden
John Longden
Donald Calthrop
Donald Calthrop

Plot: London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

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Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Pandemic viewing, Part Two

Social isolation and “working from home” mean a lot of time for movie-watching … and the volume far outstrips my ability to say anything substantive about many of the films I do watch: so here I mostly just acknowledge what […]

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The transition to sound: Arthur Robison&#8217;s <i>The Informer</i> (1929)

The transition to sound: Arthur Robison’s The Informer (1929)

The BFI Blu-ray release of Arthur Robison’s The Informer (1929) offers a fascinating glimpse of the sometimes rocky transition from silent cinema to sound, with restorations of the original silent version and the partial Talkie made […]

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