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Blackmail (1929) This movie has two or more women who talk to each other, but they only talk about a man. This movie has two or more women who talk to each other, but they only talk about a man.

Blackmail has a Bechdel rating of 2/3. That means this movie has two women in it, but they only talk to one another about a man.

Imdb Rating

6.9 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes User Meter

65 / 100

Runtime

85 minutes

Parental Rating

Unrated/Not rated

Genre

Crime Film-Noir

Thriller

Plot

After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.

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