Fiction
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PUBLISHED
©1999
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1 videodisc (approximately 165 min.) : sound, silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Blackmail based on the play by Charles Bennett; Easy virtue based on the play by Noel Coward
Blackmail (85 min.) -- Easy virtue (80 min.)
[Blackmail] A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killers identity, but so has someone else. First produced as a silent film, then in this version with dialog
Blackmail originally produced as a motion picture in 1929. Easy virtue originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1927
[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
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