Blackmail

UK - 1929 - black and white

Written by:
Charles Bennett
Alfred Hitchcock
Benn W. Levy
Michael Powell

Based upon the play by:
Charles Bennett

Cinematography by:
Jack Cox

Production Design by:
C.W.Arnold

Film Editing by:
Emile de Ruelle

Music by:
Hubert Bath
Campbell
Connelly
Henry Stafford

Produced by:
John Maxwell

  Cast

Anny Ondra (Alice White)

Sara Allgood (Mrs. White)

Charles Paton (Mr. White)

John Longden (detective)

Donald Calthrop (Tracy)

Cyril Ritchard (the artist)

Hannah Jones (the landlady)

Harvey Braban (chief inspector)

Johnny Butt (sergeant Bishop)

Phyllis Monkman (gossip)

Percy Parsons (crook)

Frank Webber
Joan Barry
Alice White
Phyllis Konstam

 

Alice White, detective Frank Webber's girlfriend, is invited by an artist to
visit his studio. The man tries to rape Alice and she kills him with a knife
to defend herself.
A criminal looks at the episode and he keeps the lady's glove from the crime
scene in order to blackmail her.
Frank is assigned to the murder case and he quickly determines that Alice is
the killer so he manages to have the blackmailer accused. Trying to run away
from the police, the man falls from the British Museum's dome.
Frank stops Alice while she is going to confess her crime to Scotland Yard.

This is Hitchcock's first sound film. The director comes back to thrillers with
this subject full with suspense and conspiracy.

 


 

 

 


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