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Blackmail Erpressung ; Easy virtue

[Blackmail] A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else. First produced as a silent film, then in this version with dialog.

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  • "Blackmail and Easy virtue"@en
  • "Easy virtue"
  • "Easy virtue"@en

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  • "[Blackmail] A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else. First produced as a silent film, then in this version with dialog."@en
  • "Easy virtue -- "Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.""
  • "Easy virtue: Laurita Finton is accused by her husband of being in love with an artist. There is a trial, but the artist, who has been rejected by the girl, kills himself. Laurita's world is destroyed so she decides to leave, changing her identity and starting a new life. She falls in love with a rich young man, John Whittaker, but his family doesn't like Laurita, a girl with an "easy virtue". John's mother finds out about the shadows in Laurita's past and tells everything to her son."@en
  • "Blackmail -- "When Frank's job at Scotland Yard comes between them, Alice accepts a date with another man. The handsome artist invites Alice to pose for a portrait but then tries to assault her. She kills him in self defense ..."--Container."
  • "[Easy virtue] "After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape the incidents surrounding her past"--Container."@en
  • "Blackmail: The first thriller in sound with the ground-breaking "knife" scene. Quarreling with her detective boyfriend, Alice White accepts the offer of excort from a handsome stranger. Allowing herself to be coaxed into his apartment, she resists his advances, and in a violent struggle, stabs him with a knife. But in her haste to leave the scene of the crime passionelle, she drops a glove. And this vital clue to her identity falls into the hands of a blackmailer who viciously starts turning the screw."@en

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  • "Drama"@en
  • "Silent films"@en
  • "Detective and mystery films"@en
  • "Foreign films"@en
  • "Feature films"@en

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  • "Blackmail Easy virtue"
  • "Blackmail Erpressung ; Easy virtue"@en
  • "Blackmail Easy virtue / [Gainsborough Pictures ; C.M. Woolf and Michael Balcon present] ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock"@en