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| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Based on | Blackmail (play) by Charles Bennett[1] |
| Produced by | John Maxwell |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Jack E. Cox |
| Edited by | Emile de Ruelle |
| Music by | Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly Hubert Bath and Harry Stafford (arrangements) Billy Mayerl (song: "Miss Up-to-Date") |
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Running time | 85 minutes (7136 ft sound) 76 minutes (6740 ft silent, 2012 restoration)[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller[3] 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,[1][4] 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.[5] Both versions are held in the British Film Institute collection.[1][6]
Blackmail is frequently cited as the first British sound feature film.[7][8][9] 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.[7]
On January 1, 2025, Blackmail enters the American public domain.[10]
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- ^ a b "The 100 best British films". Time Out. Retrieved 24 October 2017
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Pierrewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Jenkins, Jennifer; Boyle, James. "Public Domain Day 2025". Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain.