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Budget. UK £ 12,000. 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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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1927-02-14
Jun 27, 2017 · Of the seventeen features Hitchcock directed before The Man Who Knew Too Much, nine of them silent, only three can be classified as suspense thrillers: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), Blackmail (1929—his first sound film), and Number Seventeen (1932), with its cheerful throwaway nonsense.
Ivor Montagu. Title designs by. Edward McKnight Kauffer. 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 ...
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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. The casting of the matinée idol Ivor Novello as ...
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.
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May 25, 2012 · Michael Balcon and Film Society member Ivor Montagu both went to bat for the film and after the addition of some elaborate intertitles, The Lodger was finally released, pleasing critics and audiences alike. The Bioscope praised it, saying: “It is possible that this film is the finest British production ever made”.
