Motion Picture News (15/Mar/1930) - Blackmail

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• article: Blackmail
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• journal: Motion Picture News (15/Mar/1930)
• issue: page 70
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• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Anny Ondra, Benn W. Levy, Blackmail (1929), British International Pictures, Cyril Ritchard, Donald Calthrop, Jack E. Cox, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Scotland Yard, London

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BLACKMAIL (AT).

Produced by British International. Distributed by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures. With Donald Calthrop, John Longden, Anny Ondra, Cyril Ritchard, Sara Allgood. Director and scenarist, Albert Hitchcock. Dialoguer, Ben Levy. Cameraman, Jack Cox. Released, October, 1929. Length, 7,136 feet.

Mystery drama. Young detective in Scotland Yard loves a tobacconist's daughter who is a flirt. She stages a quarrel with the detective and goes to an artist's apartment. Artist forces his attentions upon her and she stabs him to death. Blackmailer had seen girl with artist and also saw detective return glove found in artist's apartment. Blackmailer falls to his death and impression is given that he was the murderer.

References: Reviewed issue Oct. 12, 1929, page 33 (sound).

Advertising: Pages 14-15, Oct. 19; insert, Dec. 21, 1929.