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Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Blackmail (1929)
Production and The Informer Hitchcock breaks the sound barrier with Britain’s first talkie It saw off several part-silent pretenders and made cinema history But his sound film had a silent counterpart;
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 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,