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Blackmail

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Blackmail
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NR,1hr 26min
Genres:
Action,Drama
Released:
January 1, 1929
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Distributor:
Whirlwind Media
Starring:
Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton  ...more
Synopsis: 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 who kills a man who tries to assault her. Ondra plays Alice White who, while having dinner in a fancy English nightspot with her husband-to-be ... Full Synopsis
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Wheeler Winston Dixon, AMG 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's leading lady, Anny Ondra, had a very thick continental accent, not ... Full Review
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Anny Ondra
Alice White
Sara Allgood
Mrs. White
Charles Paton
Mr. White
Donald Calthrop
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