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Blackmail [Videorecording] / a British International Picture.

Contributor(s): Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 [drt, aus.] | Bennett, Charles, 1899-. Blackmail | Allgood, Sara, 1883-1950 [act.] | Ondra, Anny, 1903-1987 [act.] | Paton, Charles [act.] | Longden, John, 1900-1971 [act.] | Calthrop, Donald, 1888-1940 [act.] | Ritchard, Cyril, 1886-1977 [act.] | British International PicturesMaterial type: FilmFilmReference number:30879453Publisher number: 0333Series: Lumiere picturesPublication details: Los Angeles, CA : Republic Pictures, c1994. Description: 1 videocassette (VHS)(82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 inISBN: 0782002765 :Other title: Alfred Hitchock's BlackmailSubject(s): Bennett, Charles, 1899- -- Film and video adaptations | Detective and mystery films | Feature films | Film Institute collectionProduction credits: Directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock ; photography, Jack Cox ; editor, Emile Ruello ; screenplay, Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Bennett, Benn W. Levy, Garnett Weston ; music, Campbell and Connely.Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Ritchard, Hannah Jones, Harvey Braban.Summary: A girl stabs an artist who has tried to rape her and her police detective boyfriend conceals her guilt. Victimized by a blackmailer, they call his bluff, and after a chase through the British Museum, he falls to his death from a roof.
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Videocassette release of the 1929 motion picture.

Based on the play Blackmail by Charles Bennett.

Hitchcock's first talking picture.

Title on container: Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail.

Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Ritchard, Hannah Jones, Harvey Braban.

Directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock ; photography, Jack Cox ; editor, Emile Ruello ; screenplay, Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Bennett, Benn W. Levy, Garnett Weston ; music, Campbell and Connely.

A girl stabs an artist who has tried to rape her and her police detective boyfriend conceals her guilt. Victimized by a blackmailer, they call his bluff, and after a chase through the British Museum, he falls to his death from a roof.

VHS format.

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