Blackmail (1947)
A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.
- Date of release
- 1947-07-24
- TMDB
- 4.2 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 1h 7m
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Romance
- Director
- Lesley Selander
Casting
- William Marshall — Daniel J. Turner
- Adele Mara — Sylvia Duane
- Ricardo Cortez — Ziggy Cranston
- Grant Withers — Inspector Donaldson
- Stephanie Bachelor — Carla
- Richard Fraser — Antoine Le Blanc
- Roy Barcroft — Spice Kellaway
- George J. Lewis — Blue Chip Winslow
- Gregory Gaye — Jervis (as Gregory Gay)
- Tristram Coffin — Pinky
- Eva Novak — Mamie, the Maid
- Bud Wolfe — Gomez
Interesting facts
Blackmail is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by Lesley Selander and starring William Marshall, Adele Mara and Ricardo Cortez. The story was adapted from Robert Leslie Bellem's novelette "Stock Shot", and features Bellem's hardboiled detective hero Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective.
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