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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 feature film, it was released on 14 February 1927 in London and on 10 June 1928 in New York City.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen. A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
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Jun 27, 2017 · None of this twaddle, fortunately, appears in the film. To adapt the novel, Hitchcock teamed up with Eliot Stannard, who also scripted all but one of his silent films (the exception being The Ring, credited solely to Hitchcock, although even here it seems Stannard may have had some input).
Aug 10, 2012 · Back in cinemas nationwide in a brand new restoration, accompanied by a newly commissioned score by Nitin Sawhney, Alfred Hitchcock’s silent classic The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) is the atmospheric story of a capital in panic, as a serial killer known as ‘The Avenger’ haunts the darkened streets preying on blonde-haired women.
In this release, The Lodger is accompanied by Downhill, another silent from 1927 that explores Hitchcock’s “wrong man” trope, also headlined by Novello—making for a double feature that reveals the master of the macabre as he was just coming into his own.
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The Lodger was a best-selling novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, first published in 1913, loosely based on the Jack the Ripper murders. Hitchcock knew the book—and was a lifelong fan of crime fiction—and it gave him the opportunity to feature what was to become a favorite theme—the hunted man.
Mar 22, 2021 · The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog was the 27-year-old Alfred Hitchcock’s third silent film, but the one he considered his “first true film.” It was the one that started his remarkable oeuvre of suspense films over the course of his six-decade career.
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