B001MLZNKI

043396263963

1927

1927-02-14

92

1h 32min

Awards, 1 win & 2 nominations

Alfred Hitchcock

Marie Belloc Lowndes, Eliot Stannard, Alfred Hitchcock

June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault

Michael Balcon, Carlyle Blackwell

Ashley Irwin

Gaetano di Ventimiglia, Hal Young

Ivor Montagu

C. Wilfred Arnold, Bertram Evans

Mark Bonnici, Paul Collard, Jonathan Dixon

Alma Reville

Paul Doogan

Malcolm Luker, Richard Bronskill

Renie Morrison, Alma Reville

Michael Balcon, Carlyle Blackwell, Bryony Dixon, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, E. McKnight Kauffer, Angelo Lucatello, Peter Marshall, Beth Mill, Ian Mill, Ivor Montagu, Ben Thompson, Kieron Webb, C.M. Woolf

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Gainsborough Pictures, Carlyle Blackwell Productions

UK

None

Not Rated

7.3

11979

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 film is based on the 1913 novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes and the play Who Is He? co-written by Belloc Lowndes. Its plot concerns the hunt for a Jack the Ripper-like serial killer in London.

Hitchcock s first thriller, the film established him as a name director. Upon its release the trade journal Bioscope wrote: It is possible that this film is the finest British production ever made . It also saw Hitchcock make his first cameo appearances in a film; he was depicted sitting in a newsroom, and in the second, standing in a crowd as the leading man is arrested.

£12,000 (estimated)

$83,260

Lodger,detective,expressionism,angry mob,romantic rivalry