TY - ADVS AU - Hitchcock,Alfred AU - Levy,Benn AU - Cox,Jack AU - De Ruelle,Emile AU - Ondra,Anny AU - Longden,John AU - Calthrop,Donald AU - Richard,Cyril AU - Bennett,Charles ED - British International Pictures. ED - Brentwood Home Video (Firm) TI - Blackmail AV - CM DVD 00710 PY - 2004/// CY - [California] PB - Brentwood Home Video, Distributed by BCI KW - Bennett, Charles, KW - Manslaughter KW - Drama KW - Extortion KW - Guilt KW - Criminal investigation KW - England KW - 20th century KW - Women KW - Social conditions KW - Feature films KW - Great Britain KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) KW - Detective and mystery films N1 - From the play by Charles Bennett; Originally produced as a motion picture in 1929; "Dollar DVD."; Dialogue, Benn Levy ; photography by Jack Cox ; film editor, Emile de Ruelle ; musical score by Campbell & Connelly; Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Richard; MPAA rating: Not rated N2 - Rebelling against the possessiveness of her police boyfriend, a young woman agrees to pose for an artist. Resisting his advances, she ends up murdering him in self-defense. Her boyfriend is assigned to the case, and soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else ... winding up in a dramatic chase around the British Museum. Originally begun as a silent film, it was decided mid-production to make both a silent and a sound version; in the sound version, Ondra's accented voice was dubbed over by English actress Joan Barry ER -