BLACKMAIL.
Edward G Robinson & Ruth Hussey,
Gene Lockhart, Guinn Williams, Ester Dale.
Dir: H C Potter, 1939, MGM.

SYNOPSIS:
An innocent man is released from prison after serving his sentence and is then pounced on by a vicious blackmailer.

"I suppose there never was a more wildly inappropriate mask worn in the history of nomenclature, his non de guerre, E. G. Robinson, suggests routine and a suburban house with a hose to water the geraniums. But he, himself, is a short, swarthy, electrical creature of formidable dramatic power and hands that can weave a hypnotic ballet in the motivating of a scene."
- Alexander Woolcott.

REVIEWS:
"What a sad thing it is to see this distinguished inhabitant of the Rogues' Gallery, this Napoleon of crime, this indominably amoral spirit who belongs with the borgias, feebly trying to go straight."
- New York Times.
"The family circuit will accept it as sufficient entertainment for a suspensful evening. "
- Variety.