
The spoiled, somewhat "mama's boy" young son of a railroad magnate and the pretty young daughter of the magnate's partner set out to stop their respective fathers' incessant quarreling. In the process, they realize that they are falling in love with each other.

Harry O. Hoyt, Clara Beranger, Lucien Hubbard
United States

Picture a nitrate reel hissing through a carbon-arc beam and you still won’t catch the full shimmer of The Beloved Blackmailer, a 1923 Paramount release that treats courtship like hostile corporate takeover. Director Harry O. Hoyt—fresh from dinosaur maquettes in The Lost World—trades stop-motion lizards for stop-moti...

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" Picture a nitrate reel hissing through a carbon-arc beam and you still won’t catch the full shimmer of The Beloved Blackmailer, a 1923 Paramount release that treats courtship like hostile corporate takeover. Director Harry O. Hoyt—fresh from dinosaur maquettes in The Lost World—trades stop-motion lizards for stop-motion hearts, coaxing wicked screwball tempo out of what could have been a standard society melodrama. The plot, deceptively dainty, is a Trojan horse: inside its lace doilies beats a..."


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