Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail is a landmark in British cinema. Released in June 1929, it was hailed as "the first British all-talkie film." Characteristically, Hitchcock makes flamboyant use of the ne
First published in 1986, this standard account of Hitchcock's British films and film-making is now available again in a Second Edition with a new Introduction and Bibliography. It will be welcomed by
This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director's work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, examining the artistic and cultu