Blackmail (1929)

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Blackmail (1929) - publicity material

Publicity material for "Blackmail".

Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920's London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Frank takes Alice out one night, but she has secretly arranged to meet another man. Later that night Alice agrees to go back to his flat to see his studio. The man has other ideas and as he tries to rape Alice, she defends herself and kills him with a bread knife. When the body is discovered, Frank is assigned to the case, he quickly determines that Alice is the killer, but so has someone else and blackmail is threatened. (© IMDB)

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Originally conceived as a silent film, a large portion of the film was then reshot with sound, using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film process. Both versions of the film were released theatrically, although the sound version is the one modern audiences will be the most familiar with. In "Hitchcock/Truffaut", Hitchcock relates how he used the Schufftan process to shoot certain scenes in the British Museum, where the light levels were too low. (See IMDB.)

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1115.gif Chantage (1929) / The Skin Game (1931) - Studio Canal (France, 2008)
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1113.gif Blackmail (1929) - Optimum Releasing (UK, 2007) - part of a box set
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