The Lodger : A Story of the London Fog

Yesterday I went to a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 silent film "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" at the National Gallery. It was shown accompanied by a live five piece band—piano, violin, cello, trumpet and clarinet. This is one of Hitchcock's earliest films, and it is amazing to see what a great director he was right from the start. As with a lot of his films, it deals with someone who is wrongly accused of a crime. At the same time it contains a lot of very funny scenes. The film has been recently restored by the British Film Institute. Here is the entire film from Youtube.