See this silent Hitchcock film [with live orchestra]: Blackmail @
In Alfred
Hitchcock's early silent movies, nobody can hear them scream. In Blackmail
(1929) , the last of these, a working girl murders a rakish painter in self
defense. Panicking, she tries to cover it up, and a sympathetic detective helps
her out. But there was a witness, which is where the blackmail comes in, and it
climaxes with a chase in the British Museum, a warm-up for Mount
Rushmore in North by
Northwest. It screens as part of the Sounds of Silence series, with live
music from the renowned Alloy Orchestra at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290
Harvard Ave, Brookline | Monday, September 17 @ 7 pm | $23; $20 students, seniors | 617.734.2501 or
coolidge.org.