Trailer - Blackmail - 1929

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Travel Crypto 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

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]

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