Ed dusts off some early Hitchcock with his ongoing "Speaking in Tongues" series!

Alfred Hitchcock was a master filmmaker, even the early stuff of his oeuvre already had the mark of an artist that knew and relished the medium of film.

His classics are well known and rightly so, but Ed wanted to delve a bit deeper into the Hitchcock catalogue so that's exactly what he did in his ongoing "Speaking in Tongues" column.

First up is Hitchcock's playful murder mystery Young and Innocent from 1937. Also known as "The Girl Was Young" this early Hitchcock flick is a bit more lighthearted than many of his late films Ed found it wholly enjoyable, check out it out right over here!

But Ed wasn't content, he had to go back even further and what he found was 1929's Blackmail. While this Hitchcock picture is somewhat of silent/early talkie it still possesses some of the hallmarks of The Master of Suspense and almost serves as something of a cautionary moral tale of lust, read up on it right over here!

Don't forget, be sure to check The Talking Ed in the coming weeks as Ed continues to explore one of the great masters of cinema. There's a lot of great movies out there, Hitchcock just happened to direct a lot of them.