# Blackmail (1929)

> A young London woman’s desperate self-defense becomes a tightening web of police suspicion and blackmail.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/428

## Facts

- Runtime: 86 min
- Genres: Drama, Thriller, Crime
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Ritchard, Hannah Jones, Harvey Braban
- TMDB rating: 6.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019702/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Mood: foreboding, paranoid, oppressive, classic cinema night, hitchcock retrospective

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