A story of suspense as only Alfred Hitchcock could tell it. Two strangers meet on a train and discuss the possibility of each killing a person the other hates. One of them murders his designated victim without waiting for the other to agree. From a slow start the film steadily increases in pace until it reaches its dizzying climax.
I went through a phase some years ago where I rented everything I could find by Hitchcock. I enjoyed this film. Most of all I enjoyed recognizing how much of Hitchcock had in the years since been either coopted or referenced or incorporated or homaged in film.
ReplyDeleteI have a weakness for Hitchcock's early films, in particular "The Farmer's Wife", "The Manxman" and "Blackmail". They aren't as well known as his later films, but I find them more "artistic". "Blackmail" is probably my favorite Hitchcock film. There are two versions available, released almost simultaneously in 1929, the silent and the talkie version; the silent version is better.
ReplyDelete