Critics on Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie an 86% score and audience gave it a 65% score.
“Blackmail,” which is about a woman being blackmailed by a witness after she kills a man in self-defense, was Hitchcock’s first talkie after several silent movies. Celia Simpson from The Spectator described the movie as “a better combination of the silent motion picture technique and the talkie technique than any other film we have seen.” Critics on Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie an 86% score and audience gave it a 65% score.