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Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller [3] directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard. Based on the 1928 play of the same name by Charles Bennett, [1] [4] the film is about a London woman who is blackmailed after killing a man who tries to rape her.
Blackmail: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden. After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
The first full length all talkie film made in Great Britain. After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing. ...more.
Mar 16, 2023 · Blackmail. by. Alfred Hitchcock. Publication date. 1929-07-28. Topics. Anny Ondra, Anna Ondráková, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Ritchard, Hannah Jones, Harvey Braban, Johnny Ashby, Joan Barry, Johnny Butt, Phyllis Konstam, Phyllis Monkman, Percy Parsons, Johnny Ashby, Talkies, 1920s, 20th century. Language.
The first artistically significant sound film produced in Britain, Blackmail (1929) is a key film in the history of British cinema. During the mid-to-late 1920s, the British film industry proved ill-prepared to compete with the more polished and financially successful American studio product; production in Britain declined from 136 features in ...
Hitchcock’s silent Blackmail is one of the best British films, if not the best, of the late 1920s. Made in 1929, during the transition to the sound era, it was commissioned as both a silent and as a part-talkie with music and some dialogue scenes.
After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing. Alice White, the daughter of a tobacconist, has been dating Frank Webber, a young up and coming detective at Scotland Yard. After successfully ditching Frank one evening on a date, Alice instead meets up with a young male artist who she really wanted ...
