Blackmail

Pros: Direction, Story, Cinematography, Anny Ondra

Cons: Needs to be better known

The Bottom Line: A very innovative film by Alfred Hitchcock showing how people can paint themselves into a corner and punish themselves by guilt complexes even though they escape from the law.

Review: Blackmail (1929) Alfred Hitchcock first worked in England for a good many years directing pictures both silent and talkie for film distributors like British International Pictures and was only discovered in the late 30s and imported to Hollywood by ...

Pros: Anny Ondra, Cyril Ritchard

Cons: Joan Barry's voice-over, predictable near the end

The Bottom Line: The rape scene is especially mesmerizing ... eerily penetrating silence of the moment and what is not seen, leaving the diabolical deed to the device of our own imagination

Review: The vibrantly beautiful Anny Ondra, yet another spinster in the long line of Hitchcock blondes, is spectacularly breathtaking. The aura of elegance and innocence which emanates from her gauzy figure make her downward spiral into guilt all the more ...