Blackmail
UK - 1929 - black and white
Written by: Charles Bennett Alfred Hitchcock Benn W. Levy Michael Powell Based upon the play by: Cinematography by: Production Design
by: Film
Editing by: Music
by: Produced by: |
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 |
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 |
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