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Emiliano 2022-10-20 22:36:10
Behind Britain's first sound film is a powerful subversion of traditional narrative
There are always milestones in Hitchcock's sequence - debut, first Hollywood film, first film in color, and so on. In these junctures, Blackmail has been neglected and not given the place it deserves, it was hastily produced in the place of the sound film, and as the first sound film for Hitchcock...
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Wiley 2022-10-20 18:43:13
nonexistent victim
People often think of The Tenant as a true Hitchcock film. And "Blackmail" opened the sound film era for the suspense master, which was also the first sound film in the UK. It now appears that the metaphors Hitchcock fascinated and the details that people relished can be found in "Blackmail", which...
Cyril Ritchard
Extended Reading
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The Artist: That chap's nothing but a sponger! Always pestering people up and down the street.
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Alice White: I say, how would I do for one of your models?
