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Alfred Hitchcock, UK, 1929
 
The first British talkie is a typically tense and perverse Hitchcock thriller that makes great use of the new sound technology.

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A young woman (Anny Ondra) stabs a man to death when he takes her back to his flat and then attempts to rape her.

Her policeman boyfriend (John Longden) is assigned to the case and soon realises that she was the killer, but somebody else observed her leaving the dead man's flat...

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SHEPPERTON BABYLON
A secret history of British cinema's golden age
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Listen to the director on his use of suspense
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Cast

Alice White   Anny Ondra
Mrs White   Sara Allgood
Mr White   Charles Paton
Frank Webber   John Longden
Tracey   Donald Calthrop



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