Alfred Hitchcock box, his years ignored in 10 films – Liberation

From 1927 to 1932, during the five years of transition between Muet and speaking – in England the arrival of sound cinema dates from 1929 -, Alfred Hitchcock produced fifteen feature films. Or more than two films per year. Seven dumb, seven speaking, and in the middle the hinge that Blackmail (1929) considered as the first « talkie » in the United Kingdom. Film-ordering to all the senses, for cinema and for its young director, already famous since Golden hair (1927), first film by Serial Killer four years before M cursed in Germany. Blackmail is a film started in a silent version, including a doubled, talking version was made along the way. On the part of such a filmmaker of double and lining, duplication, either as a mistake (theme of the false culprit), or as recovery and self -deprise (the double woman in Cold sweats par excellence), this exercise of making twice the same film, with two techniques, the mute he already controlled (and considered superior) and the sound that he naturally adopted as his silent films are already full of dialogues, is eminently … speaking.

The ten films of this English period offered and published by Carlotta, in the room and in Blu-ray box, are those produced by the British International Pictures, excluding three long turned by Hitchcock for Gainsborough pictures these same years (Golden hair is life, the past does not die). Since the policy of