Blackmail (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
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Where to Watch.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Anny Ondra
Alice White
John Longden
Detective Frank Webber
Sara Allgood
Mrs. White
Charles Paton
Mr. White
Donald Calthrop
Tracy
Cyril Ritchard
The Artist
Hannah Jones
The Landlady
Michael Powell
Writer
Harvey Braban
The Chief Inspector (sound version)
Ex-Det. Sergt. Bishop
The Detective Sergeant
Hubert Bath
Original Music Composer / Music Arranger
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
Charles Bennett
Writer
John Maxwell
Producer
Benn W. Levy
Writer
C. Wilfred Arnold
Art Direction
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Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller 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, the film is about a London woman who is blackmailed after killing a man who tries to rape her.
After starting production as a silent film, British International Pictures decided to adapt Blackmail into a separate sound film. It became the first successful European talkie; a silent version was released for cinemas not equipped for sound (at 6,740 feet), with the sound version (7,136 feet) released at the same time. Both versions are held in the British Film Institute collection.Blackmail is frequently cited as the first British sound feature film. It was voted the best British film of 1929 in a UK poll the year it was released. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine ranked Blackmail as the 59th best British film ever.