| Back in England, Hitchcock made the transition from silents to sound with blackmail, Britain's first talkie. |
| The ubiquitous Tully Marshall plays the grizzled sidekick role, showing much more range as an actor in talkies than he had in silents. |
| There were several silents, several early talkies and 15 other films between 1935-49 about Louis Vance's Michael Lanyard, the jewel thief-turned hero. |
| Chaplin, with his unique popularity, was able to stretch his transition from silents to talkies over a decade and completed one successful talking film, The Great Dictator. |
| Like most films of its day, Little Caesar reflects the awkward transition from the era of silents to the new age of talkies. |
| Unable to hold down normal jobs or plan for the future, the silents live from moment to moment. |
