1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail ( 1929 ) is often regarded as the first British sound feature.

This new technique was seen again just two years later in Alfred Hitchcock's film Blackmail ( 1929 ).

The Prague-raised star of Blackmail ( 1929 film ) | Blackmail ( 1929 ), Anny Ondra, was an industry favorite, but her thick accent became an issue when the film was reshot with sound.

He also signed on in a similar role on Hitchcock's first " talkie ", Blackmail ( 1929 ).

Alfred Hitchcock used the Reading Room and the dome of the British Museum as a location for the climax of his first sound film Blackmail ( 1929 ).

His next thriller was Blackmail ( 1929 ), his and Britain's first sound film.

Hitchcock's Blackmail ( 1929 ), is often regarded as the first British sound feature, while The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) features a signature Hitchcock cameo.

In 1929, Blackmail, the first British talkie released, was produced at the studios.

* Blackmail ( 1929 )

Over the following years, the Schüfftan process was used by many other film-makers, including Alfred Hitchcock, in his films Blackmail ( 1929 ) and The 39 Steps ( 1935 ), and as recently as The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), directed by Peter Jackson.

Longden had been a major star of British silent films and had also appeared in several early Alfred Hitchcock films including Blackmail ( 1929 ), Elstree Calling ( 1930 ) and The Skin Game ( 1931 ).

His film appearances include a villainous role in Alfred Hitchcock's early talkie Blackmail ( 1929 ) and much later in the Tommy Steele vehicle Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ).

Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard, and featuring Donald Calthrop, Sara Allgood and Charles Paton.

A completed silent version of Blackmail was released in 1929 shortly after the talkie version hit theaters.

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He was fortunate enough to be hired as an assistant cameraman on Blackmail ( 1929 ), the first British talkie, directed by a young Alfred Hitchcock.

She acted in Czech, Austrian and German comedies in the 1920s, and in some British dramas, most notably in Alfred Hitchcock's The Manxman and Blackmail ( both 1929 ).

Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail ( 1929 ), generally credited as the first British sound film, is based on Bennett's play of the same name.

* Blackmail ( 1929 )

On October 31, Les Trois masques debuted ; a Pathé-Natan film, it is generally regarded as the initial French feature talkie, though it was shot, like Blackmail, at the Elstree studio, just outside of London.

This was the last silent film Hitchcock directed before he made the transition to sound film with his next film Blackmail.

The film is based on the play Blackmail by Charles Bennett, as adapted by Hitchcock, with dialogue by Benn Levy.

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It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film, after Blackmail and Juno and the Paycock.

Blackmail and corruption had haunted the double lives of Dorian Gray and Sir Robert Chiltern ( in An Ideal Husband ), but in Earnest the protagonists ' duplicity ( Algernon's " bunburying " and Worthing's double life as Jack and Ernest ) is undertaken for more innocent purposes – largely to avoid unwelcome social obligations.

Bee also appeared in the 12th episode of Season 20 of Law & Order (" Blackmail ", episode 445 ), which aired on January 15, 2010.

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As a result, he gained top billing in one of his very first films, House of Blackmail ( 1953 ), directed by the veteran filmmaker Maurice Elvey, for whom he also made What Every Woman Wants the following year.

She regards her performances in Blackmail ( 1973 ), though it was not a success at box-office and Tapasya ( 1976 ) to be her best performances.

Pathescope produced a large number of home versions of significant films, including Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop cartoons, classic features such as Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail, and comedies by such well-known stars as Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin.

The studios have, over the years, been home to Alfred Hitchcock's movie Blackmail, Gerry Anderson's TV series UFO not to mention The Muppet Show was also made there by Jim Henson, and now BBC TV's most popular soap, EastEnders and their popular medical drama Holby City.

( Martin's Gordon impersonated Grant in " The Night of the Steel Assassin " and " The Night of the Big Blackmail ", but Grant was otherwise played by James Gregory in the pilot and Roy Engel in the series.

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However, when Blackmail was remade with sound, Ondra's thick accent was considered unacceptable, so her dialogue was recorded by actress Joan Barry.

Homer and Bart watch a TV movie called The Krusty the Clown Story: Booze, Drugs, Guns, Lies, Blackmail and Laughter, which reveals that Krusty won four Emmys, but they keep getting interrupted by Lisa playing her saxophone in her bedroom.