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- Original title
- Blackmail
- Year
- 1929
- Duration
- 84 min.
- Country
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United Kingdom - Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay
- Charles Bennett , Alfred Hitchcock , Benn W. Levy (Play: Charles Bennett)
- Music
- James CampbellReg Connelly
- Photography
- Jack Cox (B&W)
- Distribution
- Anny Ondra , John Longden , Sara Allgood , Charles Paton , Donald Calthrop , Cyril Ritchard , Harvey Braban , Hannah Jones , Phyllis Monkman
- producer
- British International Pictures
- Gender
- intrigue . thriller | crime . Police . Psychological thriller
- Synopsis
- One day, after an argument with Frank, her boyfriend, Alice decides to meet an acquaintance of hers, a talented young painter, and accompanies him to his studio. Once there, he starts making passes at her until he finally tries to rape her. Alice struggles to defend herself and ends up killing him with a knife. From that moment, a stranger begins to blackmail him. Meanwhile, Frank, who is a Scotland Yard detective and knows nothing of what happened, is appointed to solve the crime. (FILMAFFINITY)