Blackmail (1929 film)
Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard.
Based on the 1928 play of the same name by Charles Bennett, the film is about a London woman who is blackmailed after killing a man who tries to rape her.
After starting production as a silent film, British International Pictures decided to adapt" Blackmail" into a separate sound film.
It became the first successful European talkie; a silent version was released for theaters not equipped for sound( at 6,740 feet), with the sound version( 7,136 feet) released at the same time.
Both versions are held in the British Film Institute collection.
" Blackmail" is frequently cited as the first British.
Voted the best British film of 1929 in a UK poll the year it was released, in 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for" Time Out" magazine ranked" Blackmail" as the 59th best British film ever.
Edith Meinhard
Edith Meinhard is a German retired actress who appeared in more than fifty films during her career including the 1929 film" Diary of a Lost Girl".
The Flame of the Yukon (1926 film)
The Flame of the Yukon( 1926) is a silent Northwoods adventure- drama film starring Seena Owen and directed by George Melford.
The film is based on a story by Monte Katterjohn and was distributed by Cecil DeMille's PDC( Producers Distributing Corporation).
The film is a remake of a 1917 film that had starred Dorothy Dalton.
The 1917 film survives at the Library of Congress.
The 1926 film, once thought to be lost, is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock,( 13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Known as" the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology" Alfred Hitchcock Presents"( 1955 – 1965).
His films garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins.
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph- cable company.
He made his directorial debut with the silent film" The Pleasure Garden"( 1925).
His first successful film,( 1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film," Blackmail", was the first British.
Two of his 1930s thrillers," The 39 Steps"( 1935) and" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century.
By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood.
A string of successful films followed, including" Rebecca"( 1940)," Foreign Correspondent"( 1940)," Suspicion"( 1941)," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943), and" Notorious"( 1946).
" Rebecca" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for" Lifeboat"( 1944) and" Spellbound"( 1945), although he never won the Best Director Academy Award.
The" Hitchcockian" style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear.
The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film" is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot.
A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."
After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with" Strangers on a Train"( 1951) and" Dial M For Murder"( 1954).
By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time:" Rear Window"( 1954)," Vertigo"( 1958)," North by Northwest"( 1959), and" Psycho"( 1960) with the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations.
In 2012," Vertigo" replaced Orson Welles's" Citizen Kane"( 1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world- wide poll of hundreds of film critics.
By 2018 eight of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943).
He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year, four months before he died.
The Laughing Lady
" For the 1929 film see The Laughing Lady( 1929 film)"
The Laughing Lady is a 1946 British Technicolor musical drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth and Francis L. Sullivan.
Based on a play by Ingram D'Abbes, its plot follows a young aristocrat who makes a deal with Robespierre during the French Revolution.
Patrie (1946 film)
Patrie is a 1946 French drama film directed by Louis Daquin.
It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
Like the 1917 film it is based on the play by Victorien Sardou.
Mark Lewis (filmmaker)
Mark Lewis( born 1958 in Mullumbimby, Australia) is an Australian documentary film and television producer, director and writer.
He is famous for his film and for his body of work on animals.
Unlike many other producers of nature films, his films do not attempt to document the animals in question or their behaviors but rather the complex relationships between people and society and the animals they interact with.
His films have earned him many awards, including a British Academy Award nomination, a nomination from the Directors Guild of America, two Emmy ’s for Outstanding Direction in documentary film, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Science Program on American Television.
Edward José
Edward José (5 July 1865 – 18 December 1930) was a Belgian film director and actor of the silent era.
He directed 42 films between 1915 and 1925.
He also performed in 12 films between 1910 and 1916.
Mayblossom (1917 film)
Mayblossom is an extant 1917 silent feature film directed by Edward José and starring Pearl White.
The Kingdom of Twilight
The Kingdom of Twilight is a 1929 film directed by British author and explorer Alexander MacDonald.

Question: Do both Mayblossom (1917 Film) and Blackmail (1929 Film) films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no