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Blackmail
Film still
Directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald
Written by Lucia Chamberlain
Albert S. Le Vino
Starring Viola Dana
Alfred Allen
Wyndham Standing
Cinematography John Arnold
Production
company
Screen Classics
Distributed by Metro Pictures
Release date
  • October 4, 1920 (1920-10-04)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Blackmail is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald and starring Viola Dana, Alfred Allen, and Wyndham Standing. [1] The film reverses the typical vampire plot of the early silent film period by having the seductive woman, after her marriage, being blackmailed by the rich men she formerly preyed upon. [1]

Plot

Cast

References

  1. ^ a b Langman p. 352

Bibliography

  • Langman, Larry. American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. Greenwood Publishing, 1998.

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