Blackmail (1929)

Last Sunday I went to the Revue Cinema in Toronto and saw the silent version of Hitchcock’s Blackmail.  It must have been so many years ago that I saw it—I think it was the talkie version of this film—that I had no memory of the story any longer .  This print, or rather digital copy, was remastered, pristine and beautiful.  After it was over, I couldn’t wait to get home and watch the film all over again, or at least what I believed was the talkie DVD that I own.  I was concerned, though, that the copy that I had would be a terrible print and lately I’ve been debating with myself if it’s worthwhile watching a print that’s awful versus not seeing it at all.  But I was pleasantly surprised to find that my print wasn’t bad at all.