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The Resource Blackmail : Easy virtue, British International Pictures Ltd. presents ; directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock ; a British International picture distributed by Wardour Films. Easy virtue / C.M. Woolf and Michael Balcon present ; produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock, (videorecording ;)

Blackmail : Easy virtue, British International Pictures Ltd. presents ; directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock ; a British International picture distributed by Wardour Films. Easy virtue / C.M. Woolf and Michael Balcon present ; produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock, (videorecording ;)

Label
Blackmail : Easy virtue
Title
Blackmail
Title remainder
Easy virtue
Statement of responsibility
British International Pictures Ltd. presents ; directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock ; a British International picture distributed by Wardour Films. Easy virtue / C.M. Woolf and Michael Balcon present ; produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Title variation
  • Blackmail and Easy virtue
  • Easy virtue
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • chi
  • jpn
  • spa
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
  • [Blackmail] A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else. First produced as a silent film, then in this version with dialog
  • [Easy virtue] "After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape the incidents surrounding her past."--Provided by publisher
Member of
Cataloging source
NUI
Characteristic
videorecording
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
Blackmail (Motion picture : 1929)
Credits note
[Blackmail] Produced by John Maxwell ; dialogue, Benn Levy ; photographer, Jack Cox ; editor, Emile de Ruelle ; music, Campbell & Connelly. [Easy virtue] Scenario, Eliot Stannard ; photographer, Claude McDonnell ; editor, Ivor Montagu
Language note
First feature in English; second is silent with English intertitles; both have optional subtitles in Spanish, Japanese and Chinese
PerformerNote
  • [Blackmail] Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Richard
  • [Easy virtue] Isabel Jeans, Robin Irvine, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1899-1980
  • 1900-1973
  • 1900-1971
  • 1891-1985
  • 1899-1995
  • 1899-1973
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  • Hitchcock, Alfred
  • Levy, Benn W.
  • Ondra, Anny
  • Longden, John
  • Stannard, Eliot
  • Jeans, Isabel
  • Dyall, Franklin
  • Bennett, Charles
  • Coward, Noël
  • British International Pictures
  • Wardour Films
  • Gainsborough Studios
Runtime
165
Series statement
Hollywood classics
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Rape victims
  • Murder
  • Abused women
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Label
Blackmail : Easy virtue, British International Pictures Ltd. presents ; directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock ; a British International picture distributed by Wardour Films. Easy virtue / C.M. Woolf and Michael Balcon present ; produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock, (videorecording ;)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Blackmail originally released as a motion picture in 1929. Easy virtue originally released as a silent motion picture in 1928
  • Blackmail based on the play by Charles Bennett; Easy virtue based on the play by Noel Coward
  • Features: introduction by Tony Curtis
Color
black and white
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Contents
Blackmail (85 min.) -- Easy virtue (80 min.)
Control code
ocm42887733
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Special ed., full screen presentation.
Extent
1 videodisc (ca. 165 min.)
Lccn
00531148
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
018111997430
Other physical details
sd., si., b&w
Publisher number
82036
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(Sirsi) l00531148
System details
DVD
Terms governing use
For private home use only.
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Blackmail : Easy virtue, British International Pictures Ltd. presents ; directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock ; a British International picture distributed by Wardour Films. Easy virtue / C.M. Woolf and Michael Balcon present ; produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock, (videorecording ;)
Publication
Note
  • Blackmail originally released as a motion picture in 1929. Easy virtue originally released as a silent motion picture in 1928
  • Blackmail based on the play by Charles Bennett; Easy virtue based on the play by Noel Coward
  • Features: introduction by Tony Curtis
Color
black and white
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Contents
Blackmail (85 min.) -- Easy virtue (80 min.)
Control code
ocm42887733
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Special ed., full screen presentation.
Extent
1 videodisc (ca. 165 min.)
Lccn
00531148
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
018111997430
Other physical details
sd., si., b&w
Publisher number
82036
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(Sirsi) l00531148
System details
DVD
Terms governing use
For private home use only.
Video recording format
DVD

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