Title: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Criterion Collection)
Format: Blu-ray
Label: Criterion Collection
Genre: Mystery / Suspense, Silent Films
UPC: 715515198813
Release Date: 2017
With his third feature film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. 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 who preys on blonde women, known as the Avenger, descends upon the city. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director’s formal and thematic obsessions. In this edition, The Lodger is accompanied by Downhill, another 1927 silent exploration of Hitchcock’s “wrong man” trope, also headlined by Novello—making for a double feature that reveals the great master of the macabre as he was just coming into his own.
GENRE: Thriller
LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: None
AUDIO: Silent
Widescreen
TIME: 91 Minutes
TINTED/B&W
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