Blackmail – Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[t1g3r5fan]

After his third film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926), a young British filmmaker named Alfred Hitchcock seemed to have found a niche as a budding master of suspense, even though he was busy working with different films in different genres. However, with Blackmail – Britain’s first talking motion picture – Hitchcock firmly established himself in the suspense genre, paving the way for future success on both sides of the Atlantic. Long available on public domain home video releases, Kino Lorber has given both sound and silent versions of the movie its Blu-ray debut.



Blackmail (1929)



Released: 06 Oct 1929
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 85 min




Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller



Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden
Writer(s): Charles Bennett (from the play by), Alfred Hitchcock (adapted...

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[Brent Reid]

This review needs amending, as Kino's BD was comprehensively cocked up.

Conclusion: The second disc repeating the sound version is superfluous and both transfers have botched aspect ratios.

Post edited to link to previous HTF review.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Hey Brent:

If you want to add to the discussion of the release here, go for it. Agree/disagree...whatever. That's what we do...here. We discuss what's good and not good about home video releases.

But if you want to drive traffic away from here to your own site to do that...not cool.