This was the first Hichtcock talkie and it's just great. Its"mise in scene' is pure Hitchcock. As a great Hitchcock' fan, thanks so much for uploading this classic.. Which I never saw until now. KZitem is definitely our daily "Cinematheque". 🙏
@JayGideon-7
4 ай бұрын
Hitchcock is so good, that even while you know what he’s doing, the suspense STILL makes you squirm!
@TheBuriedLedeR
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this film.
@peterzang
Жыл бұрын
Word!
@CultCinemaClassics
Жыл бұрын
🤙
@Soundofsilver2007
Жыл бұрын
Words
@miapdx503
Жыл бұрын
What a beautiful, crisp, clean copy. I just got here and it impressed me from the beginning.
@Johnny_Guitar
Жыл бұрын
At the 10:55 minute mark ..... did everyone catch the 'cameo' of Mr. Hitchcock? He's the one sitting to the left reading a book on the Tram! Alfred, was such a 'heel' in his days....and having so much fun presenting himself in cameos in almost all his films! RIP.... Mr. Hitchcock!
@Soundofsilver2007
Жыл бұрын
AND IT WAS SILLY.
@gabbysch2625
Жыл бұрын
Everyone has to find him on their own; son. Lol
@rescuepetsrule6842
10 ай бұрын
It was fun... a gimmick audiences loved. I remember when telling somebody where he was in a new film was as bad as a spoiler.
@josephsupinsky5207
7 ай бұрын
I read where he started putting his cameos earlier in the film because he felt people were being distracted from the plot because they were searching for his cameo.
@perkinscurry8665
Жыл бұрын
In "Singin' in the Rain" there is a scene where the Debbie Reynolds character is dubbing the lines of Lena Lamont. The joke here is that in actuality the voice you hear is Jean Hagen's. So Jean is dubbing the voice of Debbie who is supposedly dubbing the voice of Jean's character. What does this have to do with "Blackmail"? Well, this is a real life precursor of the Singin' scene. Anny Ondra was an Austrian(?) actress who spoke with a thick accent that was not acceptable when, late in the process, it was decided that "Blackmail" would be a sound film. It turns out that the technology pictured in Singin' was actually not available in the early days of talkies. The solution was to dub Anny's voice on the fly -- she only mouthed the words while and off stage actress actually spoke her lines.
@peterzang
Жыл бұрын
Awesome observation
@ronblevins5610
Жыл бұрын
Great trivia right there
@Gosudar
Жыл бұрын
Anny Ondra (Anna Ondráková) was Czech. It's a bit of shame they decided to dub her. The test take (available on youtube) clearly shows her accent was not nearly as thick as to necessitate the dubbing.
@rescuepetsrule6842
10 ай бұрын
@@Gosudar And yet people made the biggest fuss over Greta Garbo and the Gabors- later on, yes, but you are right.
@philipcross8121
8 ай бұрын
@@hexagongroupIndeed, Joan Barry did "dub" Anny Ondra in this film.
@conningdale8805
Жыл бұрын
Loved it! Thank you for posting.
@RealBigBadJohn
Жыл бұрын
"With a name like Hitchcock, it has to be good." - Mason Adams
@doncorleone13
Жыл бұрын
GREAT film by the BEST director in history Deserved the oscar 😥👏👏🏆
@paulodipe1343
Жыл бұрын
_Wow, my dearest Helen! Blackmail! What an amazing old movie from 94 years ago, directed by the great genius, master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock! Everything is perfect in this British jewel from the past, which until now is shinning on screen! I hope you enjoy it with us here on CCC movie chat at live with us! God bless you always, my Sweet Lovelly Helen from my heart!_ 🤩🤩🤗🤗❤❤❤❤❤❤
@helenpoornima5126
Жыл бұрын
Thank u Paulo 👸❤❤❤❤❤❤
@paulodipe1343
Жыл бұрын
@@helenpoornima5126 _Aww, my dearest Helen! I'm glad to know that you had liked my comments! Thanks a lot for your kindness! God bless you always!_ 🤩🤩🤗🤗❤❤❤❤❤❤
@ParkAvenue34
10 ай бұрын
I just found out the leading Lady's voice was dubbed. Amazing job. She had a very "thick" accent. Amazing job
@philipcross8121
9 ай бұрын
Yes, Anny Ondra was the first foreign-language actress to be dubbed in film history. She was dubbed by English actress Joan Barry.
@ParkAvenue34
6 ай бұрын
@@steveblundell7766 BFD. it was a matter of semantics. Stop trying to be stupid
@philipcross8121
5 ай бұрын
@@steveblundell7766You're quite right. She wasn't actually dubbed, she mimed. Thanks for the correction.
@bvfgfvbgch4853
3 ай бұрын
Haha quite right
@Londonfogey
2 ай бұрын
@@steveblundell7766 True. Before dubbing was invented there was the synchronous method (where one actor off camera spoke while the one on set mimed) or the phonetic method, where actors learned their lines in a foreign language phonetically. Laurel and Hardy used this method for their early talkies where they spoke Spanish, for example.
@robertbruner7429
8 ай бұрын
These early talkies are like hybrid films. Their overly emphasized and animated expressions which are held longer for the camera than would be the case a few years later, and where the video itself continues to tell a huge part of the story.
@steveblundell7766
7 ай бұрын
This really is a hybrid film, it was originally made as silent and then converted into a partial sound film. The silent version still exists
@JJMedusa
Жыл бұрын
- Black and white films are the best! 😊❤️⚪️⚫️
@mynameisworld
3 ай бұрын
Not true. You can watch any movie in black and white by changing your monitor settings. It doesn't improve the movie at all.
@flo6176
11 ай бұрын
Le premier film parlant du Cinéma anglais, est aussi le premier Hitchcock parlant. Sacré honneur, qui n’était pas prévu du tout - ce qui a amené à des reshoots, du doublage etc… Mais le résultat garde une puissance incroyable, et même surprenante : par exemple, le passage au parlant ne s’y fait pas au moment où le film commence, mais après toute une introduction muette. Manière de rappeler que les effets narratifs reposant sur l’image sont toujours importants, et que ça ne changera jamais. Des ombres chinoises (cartoon - une moustache qui frise, horrifiques - une corde de pendu), des transparences, et autres superpositions par l’image, le son, le montage… On est en 1929, et c’est éternellement brillant. Expressionniste aussi, Fritz Lang aurait pu faire ce film… D’ailleurs le sujet s’y prête puisqu’il est question de sujets sociaux, de l’exploration du Crime et de l’application de la Loi. Mais surtout de la culpabilité. Et en soi, l’une des thématiques de Hitchcock est déjà là, à savoir que si ses héros masculins sont régulièrement des faux coupables désinvoltes, ses héroïnes sont souvent de vraies « coupables » touchantes, au moins, torturées par la teneur de leurs actes. Les Marion Crane et cie découlent de ce film (on a même une agression derrière un rideau, et le motif du couteau qui s’abat plusieures fois)… les courses poursuites (ascendantes, dans des décors incroyables) itou. Et il s’agit plus d’un film dramatique contenant du suspense et de l’action, reposant sur l’ambivalence, qui empêche de trancher sur les sentiments qu’on peut ressentir à propos du maître chanteur (d’abord dégoûtant, puis empathique par situation), du fiancé (protecteur, mais finalement étouffant)… et surtout de l'(anti)héroïne, symbole de l’oppression terrible envers les femmes. Pessimiste et troublant.
@jeffwilliams936
Жыл бұрын
Top notch , a reel treat . 1929 London ..like a history tour with the great director of suspense movies , I have a collection of his early films , but not this one ... THANK YOU !
@TheLadymiss22
Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing the Egyptian statue in a Hitchcock book decades ago. Looks like he started early having chases through well known public places like The British Museum.
@carlosarturosousagarridole9361
Жыл бұрын
Obra maestra del genio Hitchcock. Impresionante como introduce tintes de comedia en momentos de alta tensión y angustia.
@wrmty56413
6 ай бұрын
Thank you! It's been impossible for me to get hold of this film!
@ArchieAndy27
6 ай бұрын
If you're in the UK, I believe it's part of a dvd box set
@benjaminbellamy7207
Жыл бұрын
Nice to know that KZitem will rent this movie for the low low price of $3.99😂
@altonbeckert506
Жыл бұрын
The chase on top of the museum. Like nothing I've ever seen before. Leave it to the master
@stevenfromer3816
Жыл бұрын
Excellent quality print. Fantastic movie
@theAxehound
Жыл бұрын
Great early one! Thanks
@antoniod
Жыл бұрын
Anny Ondra would spend most of the rest of her career in Germany, filming off and on and retiring in 1957.
@wolfgangk1
Жыл бұрын
This is indeed a classic....
@rossdavies-hooper3602
Жыл бұрын
I think I enjoyed the chat banter better. Thanks, CCC!
@daveallen63
Жыл бұрын
Excellent quality, won't be long we will have to celebrate it's 100th Birthday.
@Ryan-on5on
8 ай бұрын
A fine relic of early British sound film, this. Though plagued by a few of the technical limitations and crudities found in most fledgling talkies, Hitchcock's "Blackmail" evinces a competent, ambitious director trying his hand with a new technology and mode of filmmaking whose potential had yet to be fully realized and coming away in turn with history's first talking crime thriller!
@spacecowgurl57
Жыл бұрын
I am in awe of the opportunities created by CCC and very grateful. Tis evening where I be, so off I go.❤
@CultCinemaClassics
Жыл бұрын
Thanks a million @America Marie for your support... stay tuned because we are only getting started, the best is yet to come!
@caz4777
Жыл бұрын
The Artist, Mr. Crewe was the Australian actor Cyril Trimnell-Ritchard from Surry Hills Sydney.
@justad5550
Жыл бұрын
Anny Ondrak, great czech actress
@philipcross8121
9 ай бұрын
There is a great scene where a nosy neighbour (Phyllis Monkman) begins to describe Alice's crime. During this time, the word "knife" is repeated with increasing volume and feeling, causing the already jittery Alice to unintentionally throw the knife she's using to cut a slice of bread for her father high into the air! Clearly Hitchcock did this intentionally! He also cleverly incorporates German Expressionism, which is clear throughout the film. Anny Ondra is beautiful, charming and brilliant here. The expressions and body language indicative of trauma as well as the close-ups of her fear and guilt are greatly displayed. Ondra is wonderfully evocative and it's very easy to see why she was a very successful actress of the silent era.
@zbaby82
Жыл бұрын
Could you upload the silent version sometime?
@Soundofsilver2007
Жыл бұрын
FIRST EVER TALKIE IN THE UK.
@peterzang
Жыл бұрын
Hitch has a bunch of movies in which cops or citizens walk past a murderous crime, oblivious. Frenzy has a great moment too. There is no God. Or if there is He won’t help you
@planetBRD
Ай бұрын
I had no idea Hitchcock was making movies this far back? This is practically the silent movie era.
@christopherTYJ
28 күн бұрын
He made several silents, I believe. I remember watching "Champagne", and at least one other.
@SiGhast
8 күн бұрын
Recently had the same revelation when I discovered The Lodger (1927), which is in fact a silent film. A pretty good one at that.
@TgSunny-i8u
Ай бұрын
Thank you for this💯
@jj80808
9 ай бұрын
His most underrated film imo important film in alot of ways,the KNIFE sequence makes great use of the potential "talkies" could have for filmmakers moving forward.
@pramilawale2781
Жыл бұрын
Best early one 👌👌
@merewynyard5813
4 ай бұрын
This movie is very good for a young director❤
@davidmayhew8083
3 ай бұрын
Ritchards is as usually Kindof creepy. Love the shadow on his face just prior to the attack. Hitchcock was a very visual director.
@doomeStrings
8 ай бұрын
I finally made it to the talkies
@58christiansful
Жыл бұрын
Mint condition - no small feat for a film that is nearly a 100.
@Lo51848
Ай бұрын
This flick is halfway between a talkie and a silent movie. A bit strange. But the photography is already very Hitchcock and so is the plot
@georgthaa2887
Жыл бұрын
Nice film but how could Hitchcock let it happen that the knife after the killing was spick and span without not even ONE drop of blood ?
@steveblundell7766
7 ай бұрын
Her undergarments would also have been covered in blood
@helenpoornima5126
Жыл бұрын
Its the thriller movie! But I miss my friends 👸❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@TheBuriedLedeR
Жыл бұрын
Hola Helen. Hope this finds you well.
@dawnsalois
Жыл бұрын
where's Alfred? did you spot him on the bus?
@Prof.Tarfeather
Жыл бұрын
LOL! Alfred Hitchcock's Cameo is seen as the passenger being pestered by the little boy on the Train! 😊 @10:43
@chavruta2000
4 ай бұрын
I thought 1929? oh this will be cute. I didn't expect this movie would FREAK ME OUT! genius.
@georginafraser451
Жыл бұрын
Very nice but I was expecting some talking. In 1929 movies.
@bobcurry5784
Жыл бұрын
My understanding is that the film was begun as a silent film but during production it was turned into a talkie one, a sort of hybrid between silent and sound. Some years ago a film festival I helped organized presented the silent film version accompanied by its original music score.
@frankmccann29
Жыл бұрын
I remember her. She's really cute. Sign me up.
@helenpoornima5126
Жыл бұрын
Yes !I am coming Big John ! U r my man ! 👸❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💋 👸 💃
@jstearns918
Жыл бұрын
Cyril Ritchard - Captain Hook from Peter Pan. Very early film for him, I guess. Thank you for this !! Great print as others have stated.
@Patrick-il4es
2 ай бұрын
Release date July 28, 1929, just prior to the great Stock Market Crash of 1929.
@GregoryGLake
Жыл бұрын
Volume on Spoken parts Sketchy
@Ourladyrules
Жыл бұрын
wish i could find the silent version
@ronalddaub9740
3 ай бұрын
Oh cool this is the same intro music as on rich and strange I can watch rich and strange over and over forever
@voyager2saturn525
Жыл бұрын
Love from guwahati
@mkurto
Жыл бұрын
Sure, them moving pictures are black & white, but these folks was living in colour, just like us modern folk.
@rescuepetsrule6842
10 ай бұрын
So... did she ever speak up? It seems not, but maybe. The overacting stars did in early movies was a lot like they played parts on stage. Long, drawn out scenes with closeups on faces showing emotion was typical. Still, I like it better than any slick movies they make now, and Hitchcock beats them all. TY!
@paulstark6818
Жыл бұрын
Great stuff ❤❤❤❤❤
@cristianoalmeida9716
Жыл бұрын
Alguém sabe me informar se esse filme é baseado em história real ?
@pengdol_95
Жыл бұрын
Korean subtitle plz...
@june5572
Жыл бұрын
I can't hear a single dialogue.
@Londonfogey
2 ай бұрын
Spoilers: this is actually quite a disturbing film particularly by the morals of the day. A policeman deliberately conceals evidence and perjures himself to protect his girlfriend, who got into difficulties because she was cheating on him with another man. OK the killing was in self defence - we as the viewers know that - but the policeman doesn't so he's purely taking her word for it.
@merewynyard5813
28 күн бұрын
Going to the Pictures..Pictures is seldom used, it leaves fond memories for me..Prefer A H British Pictures to the American ones..T Y for this one...
@vasilevidescu4341
Жыл бұрын
Titreaza . In Romana .
@machadocapela3792
Жыл бұрын
Não tem legendas
@usagiynami9937
Жыл бұрын
🙏☑
@gogoatia6677
Жыл бұрын
ترجم الى العربية
@davidcouch6514
Жыл бұрын
Cameo @ 10:43
@peterzang
Жыл бұрын
Pre Code. Lingerie. Hotcha!
@Madbandit77
Жыл бұрын
This was made in the UK, not the US.
@steveblundell7766
7 ай бұрын
@@Madbandit77 British filmmakers still self-censored due to the Hays code, so that they could distribute their movies in the U.S
@lazybear236
10 ай бұрын
Amazing how good the dubbing was. Contrast to the poor quality of the Spaghetti Westerns.
@jizz_moat
3 ай бұрын
10:42
@mynameisworld
3 ай бұрын
Oh no, it's a silent movie. Ugh.
@BeverlyM52
Жыл бұрын
10:46
@CraftyArts
Жыл бұрын
public domani movie...interrupts my stream
@thyagolokocinema
6 ай бұрын
42:44
@JORGE-lu2hf
6 ай бұрын
10:42, IS THIS hITCHCOOK?
@loveangel6350
5 ай бұрын
no blood on her or the knife 34:14
@vasilevidescu4341
Жыл бұрын
Bai . Titreaza . Romaneste . ? Pasarilee .
@davidmayhew8083
3 ай бұрын
The clown looks alittle like Fred Mertz.
@ClaraBow-b8v
10 ай бұрын
The original "Sweeney."
@tik2fajar110
Жыл бұрын
Indonesian : Film bisu
@williamwoody7607
Жыл бұрын
Sweet Christ on the cross that was bad.
@sarahpatino9805
Жыл бұрын
Boring
@steveblundell7766
7 ай бұрын
Are ya?
@RealBigBadJohn
Жыл бұрын
Gotta get Helen out of here before that woman goes crazy with the knife! Helen, quick, hop on my horse! ☕😜♥😎
@helenpoornima5126
Жыл бұрын
Now I am coming to u Big John! U r my man 👸❤❤❤❤❤❤💋 💃
@RealBigBadJohn
Жыл бұрын
@@helenpoornima5126 -- Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!
@nicoletanis3703
Жыл бұрын
👏 🙏
@MrSlitskirts
Жыл бұрын
Great film, great use of sets and locations, the streets, buildings, the museum and library, camera moves, etc. The only thing I'd change is remove the bad guy who seemed to have it too easy, or 'water him down' as I think the real story is between the couple. These early films are also virtual documentaries showing how things looked at the time as they are so well shot. I also like how Mr Hitchcock put himself in the film.
@AndreaSzabo7171
5 ай бұрын
Dont worry, lovely 💝💝 I will deliver you from your enemies. ( they trying to take me out as well ) So it will be win / win situ 🌈 💝💝💝💝💝💝🫠💝🫠.
@AndreaSzabo7171
2 ай бұрын
😇
@AndreaSzabo7171
2 ай бұрын
✅️✅️
@AndreaSzabo7171
2 ай бұрын
They going to prison. It's like holding children to ransom. = weirdo shit to the max.
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