BLACKMAIL

GB
1929
1hr 24mins
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anny Ondra and John Longden

A police inspector finds his girl is suspected of murder and he is blackmailed

This thriller is based on the Charles Bennett play of the same name and was produced as both a silent and a sound version, the latter being ‘the first full length all talkie film made in Great Britain’. It features a brief shot of a passing London tram as Anny Ondra looks out of a window in one scene towards the end.

This is the brief, albeit quite clear glimpse of a tram passing along the Embankment. County Hall is in the background on the opposite bank of the Thames.