Blackmail [videorecording] / British International Pictures Ltd. ; directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher number: 45003-9 | Brentwood Home VideoPublication details: [California] : Brentwood Home Video : Distributed by BCI, c2004.Description: 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • CM DVD 00710
Production credits:
  • Dialogue, Benn Levy ; photography by Jack Cox ; film editor, Emile de Ruelle ; musical score by Campbell & Connelly.
Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Richard.Summary: 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.
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DVD Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Colección Multimedia (Humanidades 4to. Piso) CM DVD 00710 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000039551

DVD format.

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

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

From the play by Charles Bennett.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1929.

"Dollar DVD."

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.

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