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Line 20: \| gross = }} '''''Blackmail''''' is a 1929 British [[Thriller (genre)\|thriller]][[drama film]] directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]], starring [[Anny Ondra]], [[John Longden]], and [[Cyril Ritchard]], and featuring [[Donald Calthrop]], [[Sara Allgood]] and [[Charles Paton]]. The film is based on the play ''Blackmail'' by [[Charles Bennett (screenwriter)\|Charles Bennett]], as adapted by Hitchcock, with dialogue by [[Benn Levy]]. Having begun production as a [[silent film]], the studio, [[British International Pictures]], decided to convert it to sound during shooting. As an early '[[Sound film#Transition: Europe\|talkie]]', the film is frequently cited by film historians as a landmark film,<ref>Rob White, Edward Buscombe [http://books.google.com/books?id=V96tee1l2q8C&pg=PA94&dq=blackmail+first+british+sound+film&hl=en&ei=0Vw9TNbHDJK24AaswIDGAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=blackmail%20first%20british%20sound%20film&f=false British Film Institute film classics, Volume 1] Taylor & Francis, 2003</ref> and is sometimes considered to be the first truly British "all-talkie" feature-length film.<ref>Richard Allen, S. Ishii-Gonzalès [http://books.google.com/books?id=cFEYI_wNKAcC&pg=PR15&dq=Blackmail+(1929),+is+regarded+as+the+first+British+sound+feature,&hl=en&ei=2k49TOa-G6KI0wT0ubTIDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false Hitchcock: past and future] Routledge, 2004</ref><ref>St. Pierre, Paul Matthew [http://books.google.com/books?id=AvxgFdRJ66kC&pg=PA79&dq=blackmail+first+british+sound+film&hl=en&ei=cQ0UTZnuMsSwhQebkrG3Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=blackmail%20first%20british%20sound%20film&f=false Music hall mimesis in British film, 1895-1960: on the halls on the screen] p.79. Associated University Presse, 2009 </ref> Earlier British sound films include the part-talking ''The Clue of the New Pin'', the unusual ''The Crimson Circle'' (a German silent film dubbed after the fact by British distributors) and ''Black Waters'', a British all-talkie production shot in the US. Earlier British sound films include the part-talking ''[[The Clue of the New Pin (1929 film)\|The Clue of the New Pin]]'' filmed in British Phototone, a [[sound-on-disc]] system using 12-inch discs, ''[[Die rote Kreis (1929 film)\|The Crimson Circle]]'' a UK-German silent film dubbed after the fact with the [[Lee DeForest\|DeForest]] [[Phonofilm]] [[sound-on-film]] process, and ''Black Waters'', a British all-talkie production shot in the US. In March 1929, ''Pin'' and ''Circle'' were trade-shown together in London. ==Plot==