Blackmail

Blackmail [videorecording] / British International Pictures Ltd. ; directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock. - [California] : Brentwood Home Video : Distributed by BCI, c2004. - 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

From the play by Charles Bennett. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1929. "Dollar DVD."

Dialogue, Benn Levy ; photography by Jack Cox ; film editor, Emile de Ruelle ; musical score by Campbell & Connelly. Dialogue, Benn Levy ; photography by Jack Cox ; film editor, Emile de Ruelle ; musical score by Campbell & Connelly.

Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Richard.

Rebelling against the possessiveness of her police boyfriend, a young woman agrees to pose for an artist. Resisting his advances, she ends up murdering him in self-defense. Her boyfriend is assigned to the case, and soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else ... winding up in a dramatic chase around the British Museum. Originally begun as a silent film, it was decided mid-production to make both a silent and a sound version; in the sound version, Ondra's accented voice was dubbed over by English actress Joan Barry.

MPAA rating: Not rated.


DVD format.

45003-9 Brentwood Home Video


Bennett, Charles, 1899-1995 --Film and video adaptations.


Manslaughter--Drama.
Extortion--Drama.
Guilt--Drama.
Criminal investigation--England--20th century--Drama.
Women--Social conditions--England--20th century.


Feature films.
Feature films--Great Britain.
Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
Detective and mystery films.

CM DVD 00710