The Whistle Stop Train Tour From: whitehouse | January 19, 2009 | 346889 views Inaugural Weekend kicked-off with President Obama's whistle stop train tour from Philadelphia to Washington, DC. Tagline: See and Hear It - Our Mother Tongue As It Should Be Spoken www.imdb.com Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Charles Bennett (play) Alfred Hitchcock (adaptation) Benn W. Levy (dialogue) Release Date: 6 October 1929 (USA) Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920's London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Frank takes Alice out one night, but she has secretly arranged to meet another man. Later that night Alice agrees to go back to his flat to see his studio. The man has other ideas and as he tries to rape Alice, she defends herself and kills him with a bread knife. When the body is discovered, Frank is assigned to the case, he quickly determines that Alice is the killer, but so has someone else and blackmail is threatened. en.wikipedia.org 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. The film is based on the play Blackmail by Charles Bennett, as adapted by Hitchcock, with dialogue by Benn Levy. Having began production as a silent film, the studio, British International Pictures, decided to convert it to sound during shooting. As an early ...
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