Mark Ravenhill on Blackmail: the sensational thriller that shook Hitchcock and me
Charles Bennett's melodramatic suspense drama became a hit 1929 film for Hitch. Now it's back on stage " minus the first act and with a surprising ending Perhaps it was the corner-shop setting that first drew Alfred Hitchcock's attention to Charles Bennett's Blackmail as the source of his 1929 film. Hitchcock had grown up above his family's small shop in east London. He would have recognised the world of Bennett's pl…
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