Master Of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock Five Early Films(DVD English)

Blackmail (1929) Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920's London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Frank takes Alice out one night, but she has secretly arranged to meet another man. Later that night Alice agrees to go back to his flat to see his studio. The man has other ideas and as he tries to rape Alice, she defends herself and kills him with a bread knife. When the body is discovered, Frank is assigned to the case, he quickly determines that Alice is the killer, but so has someone else and blackmail is threatened. Murder! (1930) A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. The Skin Game (1931) Storyline - A rich family, the Hillcrests, is fighting against the speculator, Hornblower, who sends away poor farmers to build factories on their lands. When Mrs. Hillcrest finds out that Chloe Hornblower was a prostitute, she uses this secret to blackmail the speculator and force him to stop his business. Rich and Strange (East of Shanghai) (1931) Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point. The Manxman (1929) A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.