On Friday, October 18th, the Museum will kick off the 2024 Mighty Wurlitzer Theater Organ Concert Series welcoming organist Dennis Scott from Chicago, IL. This year’s series will once again begin with a silent film— Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog— accompanied by the sounds of the Mighty Wurlitzer.

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, and Ivor Novello.

Hitchcock’s third film tells the story of a serial killer known as “The Avenger” (loosely based on Jack the Ripper) who is on the loose in London, murdering blonde women. A mysterious man arrives at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for a room to rent. The Buntings’ daughter is a blonde model seeing one of the detectives assigned to the case. The detective becomes jealous of the lodger and begins to suspect that he might be The Avenger, fearing the Buntings’ daughter will be his next victim.

Tickets are $20, and just $16 for GRPM members.