Summer of Hitch Love: Silent Blackmail in Chicago

And no, not the usual kind of politico blackmail in the windy city--Hitchcock and his silent version of Blackmail (Blackmail was released generally as a silent film and also a talkie to theaters equipped with sound).

Film and Music

The popular local guitar duo of Goran Ivanovic and Andres Kapsalis will play an original score to Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 masterpiece Blackmail. The film originally was green-lighted as a silent film, but studio executives converted it into a "talkie" during production.

Blackmail also contains what may be Hitchcock's lengthiest cameo in one of his own films. (Mayne Stage, 1328 W. Morse, 7:30 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m. Purchase tickets here.)