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November 2018

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Blackmail (1929)

    by Brent Reid 8th November 2018

    NEWS: Blackmail the play revival! Mercury Theatre, Colchester, 4-19 March, 2022 | writer article | director interview | review Production Hitchcock breaks the sound barrier with Britain’s first talkie It…

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: The Manxman (1929)

    by Brent Reid 8th November 2018

    The Master’s last fully silent film is a haunting, romantic smalltown drama Carl Brisson, star of The Ring, is caught up in another traumatic love triangle Secrets and lies prepared…

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Champagne (1928)

    by Brent Reid 6th November 2018

    The Master’s second comedy features Betty Balfour, Britain’s biggest star of the 1920s But even her effervescent charms can’t keep it from occasionally falling a little flat Its mostly hit but a little…

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: The Farmer’s Wife (1928)

    by Brent Reid 6th November 2018

    The Master’s uproarious first comedy is stuffed with oddballs and eccentrics It’s full of good old-fashioned English humour, from gentle to earthy and bawdy With slapstick and even subtle smut,…

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