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Blackmail

Credits

Country :

Year :

1929

Director :

Alfred Hitchcock

Version :

English intertitles

Duration :

84 minutes

Format :

digital

Actors :

Anny Ondra, John Longden, Charles Paton

Coproduction Philharmonie and Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg

synopsis

Frank Webber is a detective inspector at Scotland Yard. One day, he has an argument with his fiancée. She decides to follow a young painter to his studio, believing that with another man, her life will be different…

MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT

The musical accompaniment is provided by the Luxembourg Philharmonic, conducted by Frank Strobel. The score is composed by Neil Brand, with orchestration by Timothy Brock.

I’ve seen Blackmail many times but never like that – Neil Brand’s score was amazing, it picked out so many details that you might miss without the music being there, and it really brought the film to life… this odd coincidence of people and light and chemicals trapped in this medium but somehow being conjured back to life before our eyes and ears in that performance was extraordinary.

Matthew Sweet – ‘Caught on Film’ BBC Radio 4