Originally made in its entirety as a silent film, Blackmail was in part dubbed, in part re-shot to become Hitchcock's--and Britain's--first all-talkie feature. However the recently rediscovered silent version which we present tonight has been acclaimed by British critics as far superior to the sound version. This Scotland Yard thriller uses the streets and small back rooms of 1929 London to great advantage--climaxing in a chase through the British Museum. Czech actress Anny Ondra stars as a woman who murders an artist (Cyril Ritchard) in self-defense, then becomes the target of a blackmailer. The feature will be preceded by extremely rare footage of Ondra's microphone tests for the sound version of the film. (Her thick Polish accent would not do, so Joan Barry, poised just off-camera, spoke her lines for her.)