Sound film "The Clue of the New Pin", a British Lion production using the sound-on-disc British Photophone system. In May, "Black Waters", a British and Dominions Film Corporation promoted as the first UK all-talker, received its initial trade screening; it had been shot completely in Hollywood with a Western Electric sound-on-film system. None of these pictures made much impact. The first successful European dramatic talkie was the all-British "Blackmail". Directed by twenty-nine-year-old Alfred Hitchcock, the movie had its London debut June 21, 1929. Originally shot as a silent, "Blackmail" was restaged to include dialogue sequences, along with a score and sound effects,
Alfred Hitchcock Presents briefly detail how fate (or the authorities) eventually brought the character to justice. Hitchcock told "TV Guide" that his reassurances that the criminal had been apprehended were "a necessary gesture to morality." "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" finished at number 6 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1956–57 season, number 12 in 1957–58, number 24 in 1958–59, and number 25 in 1959–60. The series was originally 25 minutes per episode, but it was expanded to 50 minutes in 1962 and retitled "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour". Hitchcock directed 17 of the 267 filmed episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"—four during the first season and