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The Lodger is based on a novel of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes about the Jack the Ripper murders, as well as the play Who Is He?, a comic stage adaptation of the novel by Horace Annesley Vachell that Hitchcock saw in 1915.
Jun 27, 2017 · Not surprising, then, that he looked back on The Lodger with affection, calling it “the first true Hitchcock movie.” Not only is it a suspense thriller but it foreshadows, in a good many of its plot details, themes and preoccupations that are now recognized as key elements of Hitchcock’s cinematic world.
Jun 26, 2017 · Marie Belloc Lowndes’s novel The Lodger ends with the villain fleeing the Bunting home before the detectives can arrest him. But studio executives forced Hitchcock to change the ending, convinced that Novello’s appeal among his female fans would be tarnished if he played a murderer of beautiful blonde women.
Sep 30, 2024 · Maire Belloc Lowndes’ most influential work, The Lodger, was based on tales of Jack the Ripper, a mystery still fascinating people today. In a memoir, Belloc Lowndes credits a conversation with a dinner companion, who related the story of two former servants who’d opened a lodging house.
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This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idol Ivor Novello) who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse just as a killer known as the Avenger descends upon the city, preying on blonde women.
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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.
Nov 11, 2019 · Based on a 1913 novel of the same name by Marie Bellox Lowndes (sister of the famous British writer and historian, Hillaire Belloc), The Lodger was later dubbed by Hitchcock “the first true Hitchcock movie.” Blonde women are being hunted on the streets of London at night by a notorious and anonymous serial killer called “The Avenger.”
