Blackmail

1929
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1h 25min

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Anny Ondra

Alice White

John Longden

Detective Frank Webber

Sara Allgood

Mrs. White

Charles Paton

Mr. White

Donald Calthrop

Tracy

Cyril Ritchard

Mr. Crewe, an artist

Hannah Jones

The Landlady

Harvey Braban

Chief Inspector Wald (sound version)

Ex-Det. Sergt. Bishop

The Detective Sergeant
(as Ex-Det. Sergt. Bishop - Late C.I.D. Scotland Yard)

Johnny Ashby

Boy
(sin créditos)

Joan Barry

Alice White
(voz)
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Johnny Butt

Sergeant
(sin créditos)

Alfred Hitchcock

Man on Subway
(sin créditos)

Phyllis Konstam

Gossiping Neighbour
(sin créditos)

Sam Livesey

The Chief Inspector (silent version)
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Phyllis Monkman

Gossip Woman
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Percy Parsons

Crook
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Trivia
Much of this movie was originally shot silently. When sound became available during the course of shooting, Sir Alfred Hitchcock re-shot certain scenes with sound, thus making it his first talkie. There was one complication with this change, however. Leading lady Anny Ondra had a thick Czech accent which was inappropriate to her character, Alice White. Joan Barry was chosen to provide a different voice for her, but post-production dubbing technology did not exist then. The solution was for Barry to stand just out of shot and read Alice's lines into a microphone as Ondra mouthed them in front of the camera. This is generally acknowledged as the first instance of one actress' voice being dubbed by another, even though the word "dub" is technologically inappropriate in this case.

Errores
When Alice "unlocks" the door to the building where she lives, it starts to open as soon as the key reaches the door. It was clearly not only not locked, but not even latched. However, she goes through with the motion of unlocking it.

Citas
Alice White: You and your Scotland Yard. If it weren't for Edgar Wallace, nobody'd ever heard of it.

Versiones alternativas
Originally filmed as a silent movie, running 75 minutes; Hitchcock later added newly shot scenes and had other existing footage dubbed to create a talkie version, running 86 minutes.

Conexiones
Edited into Der Zinker (1931)

Bandas sonoras
Miss Up-to-Date
(1929) (uncredited)
Words by Frank Eyton and music by Billy Mayerl
Performed by Cyril Ritchard

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7/10

Hitchcock's guilty woman

A common motif in Alfred Hitchcock's movies is the guilty woman: "Blackmail", "Psycho" and "The Birds" are all prime examples. In "Blackmail", Alice White (Anny Ondra) goes home with an artist one night and he tries to rape her. She murders him, and from then on everything reminds her of it. The jester painting appears to be looking at her (or she at it?), a billboard looks like a knife, and a woman keeps uttering the word knife. But in the end, everything blows up in Alice's face.

Hitch was certainly showing his chops here. The camera angles, scenery, and other such things all combined to make what we would expect in a Hitchcock movie. I try to imagine being a moviegoer in 1929 watching "Blackmail" for the first time, wondering what Hitchcock's subsequent work would be like.