Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Blackmail [videorecording] / 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.

Edition:

Special ed.

Publisher, Date:

Los Angeles, CA : Delta Entertainment Corp. : LaserLight DVD, c1999.

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 165 min.) : sd., si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

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"--Container.

Subjects:

Rape victims -- Drama.

Murder -- Drama.

Abused women -- Drama.

Feature films.

Silent films.

Feature films -- Great Britain.

Detective and mystery films.

Detective and mystery films -- Great Britain.

Silent films -- Great Britain.

Foreign films.

Other Author:

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Maxwell, John, 1916-1982.

Levy, Benn W. (Benn Wolfe), 1900-1973.

Ondra, Anny.

Longden, John, 1900-1971.

Woolf, C. M.

Balcon, Michael, 1896-1977.

Stannard, Eliot.

Jeans, Isabel, 1891-1985.

Dyall, Franklin.

Bennett, Charles, 1899-1995. Blackmail.

Coward, Noel, 1899-1973. Easy virtue.

British International Pictures.

Wardour Films.

Gainsborough Studios.

Delta Entertainment Corporation.

Laserlight DVD (Firm)

Other Title:

Title on disc and container: Blackmail and Easy virtue.

Easy virtue.

Notes:

Blackmail originally produced as a motion picture in 1929. Easy virtue originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1927.

Blackmail based on the play by Charles Bennett; Easy virtue based on the play by Noel Coward.

Includes an introduction by Tony Curtis and original theatrical trailer from Rear window.

[Blackmail] Produced by John Maxwell ; dialogue by Benn Levy ; photographer, Jack Cox ; editor, Emile de Ruelle ; music, Campbell & Connelly. [Easy virtue] Scenario, Eliot Stannard ; photographer, Claude McDonnell ; editor, Ivor Montagu.

[Blackmail] Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Richard.

[Easy virtue] Isabel Jeans, Robin Irvine, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams.

DVD.

First feature in English; second is silent with English intertitles; both have optional subtitles in Spanish, Japanese and Chinese.

Contents:

Blackmail (85 min.) -- Easy virtue (80 min.).

Publisher Number:

82036

Other Number:

42887733

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

293907

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Blackmai

Medium:

[videorecording]