Blackmail (Blu-ray) R
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Blackmail
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 13, 2019
- Originally Released: 1929
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood & John Longden | |
| Performer: | Donald Calthrop, Hannah Jones & Cyril Ritchard | |
| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
| Edited by | Emile de Ruelle | |
| Screenwriting by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
| Original story by | Charles Bennett | |
| Director of Photography: | Jack Cox |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Blackmail marked Hitchcock's first use of sound, and it remains famous for its innovations in that area. But it's now more stimulating for its experiment with narrative structure.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
A little clunky at times for contemporary audiences but still manages to truly perturb.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 8/10 --
...crackles with the energy of a genius reckoning with a new toy-box.
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The Retro Set
Blackmail incorporates some of Hitchcock's most complex, nastiest themes, digging deep into the psychological nature of trauma and drawing justice, personal autonomy, gendered expectations, and misogyny into question.
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Citizen Dame
A clearly cynical and even corrosive film. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Blackmail is a better combination of the silent motion picture technique and the talkie technique than any other film we have seen.
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The Spectator
The director, Alfred Hitchcock, frequently fails to see that his scenes are adequately lighted and more often than not the images do not stand out as distinctly as they might if more attention had been paid to the shading of the interior walls.
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New York Times
Product Description:
A film far ahead of its time, BLACKMAIL was the first sound picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film centers on a girl who is forced to kill a man, only to become investigated by her detective boyfriend. Hitchcock's bold experimentation with sound, his use of visual and aural repetitions, and his use of mirrors to create visual effects make this a seminal British film, based on the play by Charles Bennett.
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