Blackmail

Name: Blackmail
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: October 6, 1929
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 71

1929

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Sono Art-World Wide Pictures | Release Date: October 6, 1929 | Not Rated

Summary: After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 85 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Moodily filmed in an effectively Germanic style, with a neat supporting turn by Calthrop and fine set pieces such as the chase through the British Museum, BLACKMAIL still plays well, and is a suitable precursor to the master director's later work. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

A little clunky at times for contemporary audiences but still manages to truly perturb at times... Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

The extraordinary plateau attained by Hitchcock’s first sound film in relation to his overall development is the sum of many accomplishments: above all, a decisive mastery in moving back and forth between objective and subjective narrative modes. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Hitchcock's first talkie, begun as a silent film and then converted midstream, alternates stiff dramatic scenes with brilliant, highly visual suspense sequences. [26 Nov 1999, p.A]

Dave Kehr

Like most of his British films, Blackmail is a sign of things to come rather than Hitchcock at his height, but it shouldn’t be missed. Read full review

Pauline Kael

A London-set Hitchcock silent thriller that was in part reshot and in part dubbed to make it a sound film--and an unusually imaginative and innovative one.

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Blackmail is most draggy. It has no speed or pace and very little suspense. Read full review

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