Silent Era Information*Progressive Silent Film List*Lost Films*People*Theatres
Taylorology*Articles*Home Video*Books*Search
 
Pandora's Box BD
 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  [Blackmail Sound Test] (1929)
 
Progressive Silent Film List
A growing source of silent era film information.
This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved.
About This Listing

Report Omissions or Errors
in This Listing

 

[Blackmail Sound Test]
(1929) England
B&W : 37 seconds
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Alfred Hitchcock [himself], Anny Ondra [herself].

British International Pictures, Limited, production. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Full-sound film.

Sound test.

Synopsis: Short sound test of Hitchcock talking with Ondra:
Hitchcock: Now, uh, Miss Ondra. You asked me to let you hear your voice on the talking picture.
Ondra: Ha, ha. But, Hitch, you mustn’t do that.
Hitchcock: Why not?
Ondra: Well, because . . . I can’t speak well.
Hitchcock: Do you realise the squad van will be here any moment?
Ondra: No, really? Oh, my god. I’m terribly frightened.
Hitchcock: Why? Have you been a bad woman or something?
Ondra: Well, not just bad, but . . . uh.
Hitchcock: But you’ve slept with men.
Ondra: Oh, no! [Turning to hide her laugh]
Hitchcock: You have not? Come here. Stand in your place, otherwise it will not come out right, as the girl said to the soldier.
[Ondra breaks up and turns from the camera again]
Hitchcock: [To the crew] That’s enough.

Survival status: Print exists in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 22 June 2009.

References: Film viewing : Taylor-Hitchcock pp. 95-96.

Home video: DVD.

 
 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  [Blackmail Sound Test] (1929)
 
Lodger BD
Become a Patron of Silent Era

LINKS IN THIS COLUMN
WILL TAKE YOU TO
EXTERNAL WEBSITES

SUPPORT SILENT ERA
USING THESE LINKS
WHEN SHOPPING AT
AMAZON

AmazonUS
AmazonCA
AmazonUK

The Lodger BD

Hitchcock BIP Pictures BD

Little Rascals Vol 1 BD

Beloved Rogue BD

Hitchcock: Beginning BD

Cat and the Canary Standard BD

Charley Chase 1927 BD

Capra at Columbia UHD/BD

Seven Chances/Sherlock Jr BD

L&H Year 2 BD

Caligari UHD

Pandora's Box BD

Anna Boleyn BD