| Title |
Blackmail ; : The 39 steps ; Sabotage |
| Edition |
Collectors 3 movie set. |
| Published |
[Australia?.] : Platinum Packaged Media, 2012. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 + 78 + 82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Notes |
Blackmail : From the play by Charles Bennett. |
| Blackmail : Originally produced as a motion picture: British International Pictures Ltd., 1929. |
| Blackmail : Directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock; dialogue, Benn Levy; producer, John Maxwell; photography, Jack E. Cox; film editor, Emile de Ruelle; musical score, Campbell & Connelly. |
| The 39 steps : Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. |
| Sabotage : Directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; screen play by Charles Bennett. |
| Performers |
Blackmail : Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Ritchard. |
| The 39 steps : Robert Donat, Lucie Mannheim. |
| Sabotage : Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder. |
| Summary |
Blackmail : Rebelling against the possessiveness of her police boyfriend, a young woman agrees to pose for an artist. Resisting his advances, she ends up murdering him in self-defense. Her boyfriend is assigned to the case, and soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else ... winding up in a dramatic chase around the British Museum. Originally begun as a silent film, it was decided mid-production to make both a silent and a sound version; in the sound version, Ondra's accented voice was dubbed over by English actress Joan Barry. |
| The 39 steps : The best known of Hitchcock's British films, this civilized spy yarn follows the escapades of Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors - a chase in which he is both the hunter and the hunted. Adapted from John Buchan's novel, this classic Hitchcock "wrong man" thriller encapsulates themes that anticipate the director's biggest American films (especially North by Northwest), and is a standout among his early works. |
| Sabotage : The manager of a theatre becomes the focus of an elaborate and detailed enquiry by detectives, on suspicion of political sabotage. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification: PG. |
| System details |
DVD All regions. |
| Subjects |
Feature films -- Great Britain |
| Motion pictures -- Great Britain |
| Detective and mystery films |
| Genre |
Feature films Great Britain |
| Thrillers (Motion pictures) |
| Film adaptations |
| Other Names |
Donat, Robert |
| Manneheim, Lucie |
| Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 |
| Ondra, Anny |
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