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Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Blackmail (1929)
Production and The Informer Britain’s first talkie saw off several part-silent pretenders and made film history The Master’s first full-length sound film and its silent counterpart get the twice-over They were simultaneously shot
Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: The Manxman (1929)
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)
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)
The Master’s uproarious first comedy, stuffed with oddballs and eccentrics It’s full of good old-fashioned English humour, from gentle to bawdy and earthy With slapstick and even subtle smut, fans