Released February 14, 1927. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
"A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London."
*Considered by Hitchcock himself to be his first true film, "The Lodger" is the earliest of his films that survives today in it's entirety. It was based off the book of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes. It was the first book to offer a solution to the Jack The Ripper killings. The book is supposedly based on an anecdote told to the painter Walter Sickert by the landlady when renting a room; she said that the previous tenant had been Jack the Ripper.*
Featuring:
Marie Ault ... The Landlady
Arthur Chesney ... Her Husband
June ... Daisy - Their Daughter
Malcolm Keen ... Joe - a Police Detective
Ivor Novello ... The Lodger
Reginald Gardiner ... Dancer at Ball (uncredited)
Eve Gray ... Showgirl Victim (uncredited)
Alma Reville ... Women Listening to Wireless (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock ... Extra in Newspaper Office (uncredited)
The original book was adapted into the following film versions:
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
Man In The Attic (1953)
The Lodger (2008)
Produced by Gainsborough Pictures/Piccadilly Pictures Ltd
W&F Film Service Ltd
(*thanks to IMDb)
Ha! It's Hitchcock; only a blonde could drive a man to murder.
JennKirH 2 months ago
@normandyangel "Pleasure Garden" was his first film. I love this film, and I think that it shows his venture into other genres, with the expressionistic backgrounds. You can also feel that in a way, he's starting to muster his own style in "The Lodger". This was a way for him to formulate it. Perfect man. It's interesting to see how he worked his way up in the rank of film maker here.
blowskiol 5 months ago
@verbusen Thankyou very much. Whilst I you hate the core, which is understandable considering it doesn't seem to fit, I first heard it with this one on it so I remember it as being this way. Thankyou very much.
ceberus1992able 6 months ago
@ceberus1992able Someone posted it with the username sdfilmcritic . It's got the other score and in one full post. I've heard this soundtrack before on other public doamin silent films and hate it, not sure if the other soundtrack is any better yet but it seems better in the first two minutes.
verbusen 6 months ago
yeah i love alfred hitchcock i think this was is first movie too bad it silent..
normandyangel 11 months ago
Man the opening score reminds me of bladerunner so much!!
buknar456 11 months ago
@ceberus1992able The other "score" was on the version in the Mill Creek Entertainment 20 movie box set but I think it was just some music they shoved over the film - didn't match up at all.
delthorpe223 1 year ago
@delthorpe223 Where did you hear the other score?
ceberus1992able 1 year ago
Does anyone know where I can watch the full version with the other other soundtrack
ceberus1992able 1 year ago
Does anyone know where I can watch the full version of this with this soundtrack rather than the new score? Thanks
ceberus1992able 1 year ago