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Decode the Pre-Code: Four Hot Early Talkies Hit Blu-Ray
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Decode the Pre-Code: Four Hot Early Talkies Hit Blu-Ray

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 / 8 September 2020

Sinuous camera moves and stylish direction, endings that surely wouldn't have flown after the Code crackdown: four pre-code talkies from Cecil B. DeMille, Phil Goldstone, Victor Halperin, and Stuart Walker.

Hitchcock Breaks the Sound Barrier in Early Films ‘Blackmail’ and ‘Murder!’
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Hitchcock Breaks the Sound Barrier in Early Films ‘Blackmail’ and ‘Murder!’

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 / 11 September 2019

Hitchcock's motif of treacherous toying with filmgoers is intriguing to spot in his early silent-to-talkie thrillers, Blackmail and Murder!