# Ricatto (1929)

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**Original title**: *Blackmail*
**Runtime**: 86 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller, Crime
**Directed by**: Alfred Hitchcock
**Written by**: Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell
**Starring**: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Ritchard

> *A romance of Scotland Yard*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

First date shadows slide across a Regent Street window display.

She follows a man in a silver cane up a Mayfair stairwell while Frank chases a pickpocket below.

A Hitchcock silent before anyone heard the fear in it.

**Mood tags**: paranoid

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