--- title: 'Blackmail (1929)' type: 'film' director: 'Alfred Hitchcock' released: '1929-06-30' runtime_minutes: 81 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/blackmail-1929' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019702/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Blackmail (1929) 1929 · 81 min · Drama, Crime, Thriller · United Kingdom ## Synopsis Blackmail is a 1929 British crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, Donald Calthrop and Cyril Ritchard. Based on the 1928 play of the same name by Charles Bennett, the film is about a London woman who is blackmailed after killing a man who tries to rape her. ## Credits - **Director:** [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock) - **Screenplay:** [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock), [Michael Powell](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-powell) - **Director of Photography:** [Michael Powell](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-powell), [Ronald Neame](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-neame), [Jack E. Cox](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-e-cox) - **Original Music Composer:** [Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/jimmy-campbell-and-reg-connelly) - **Producer:** [John Maxwell](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-maxwell-2) - **Editor:** [Emile de Ruelle](https://cinepixo.com/people/emile-de-ruelle) ## Cast - [Donald Calthrop](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-calthrop) as Tracy - [Charles Paton](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-paton) as Mr. White - [Cyril Ritchard](https://cinepixo.com/people/cyril-ritchard) as Crewe - [Joan Barry](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-barry) - [John Longden](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-longden) as Frank Webber - [Anny Ondra](https://cinepixo.com/people/anny-ondra) as Alice White - [Alfred Hitchcock](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hitchcock) - [Sara Allgood](https://cinepixo.com/people/sara-allgood) as Mrs. White ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/blackmail-1929 Film facts: Wikidata (Q916078); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.