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Blackmail

Cast

Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden View All


Crew

Alfred Hitchcock (Screenplay), Alfred Hitchcock (Director) View All

Release: Jul. 28th, 1929
Runtime: 1 hour, 26 minutes
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
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1 i forget the name of a movie based on blackmail I rimember a scene
I think the scene is going on at the beginning of the movie when an old man speaks abnormally vulgar in the plenty of sober people. It looks like somebody is blackmailing him to do that. I can not r...

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Takoma11
While I liked the acknowledgement of the way that Alice is pushed aside, the other side of that coin is that the film would have been a lot more interesting if Alice was more of an active participant in the dealings with the blackmailer.
TheUsualSuspect
Hitchcock filmed more than just the ending with sound, which means that this film is generally received as the first British talkie.
Thunderbolt
Blackmail started as a silent film but British International Pictures decided to adapt it into a separate sound version.
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