The right wrong man

Blackmail

(1929)

Another wonderful early Hitch: the guilty leading lady, as in Sabotage, and the climactic chase to the top of a monument, as in Saboteur, plus the perverse humor characteristic of Hitchcock from A to Z.

His first talkie, and broadly overacted, as was the style of the day, but at its best when it seems a silent, as in the first eight minutes and much of the late going, like the chase sequence through the British Museum. A very nearly great film.