Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) exists in two separate versions, one silent and the other sound. (Those theaters not yet equipped for sound showed the silent version.) It is often credited as the first British sound film (which it is not); and it is much more widely known in that version, though there are critics who prefer the silent. In either version it is a great film. The images presented here are from the scene where Alice White (Anny Ondra) stabs and kills her would be rapist, the artist, Mr Crewe (Cyril Ritchard), with a rather convincing bread knife. On her way out she stabs one of his paintings as well. It is, of course, for the first “murder” that the heroine is being blackmailed.
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