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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. News of the film was announced by the British press at the start of 1926 and Ivor Novello was announced as the lead in February.
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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.
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.
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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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.
Plot. A young blonde woman screams. She is the seventh victim of a serial killer known as the Avenger, who targets young blonde women on Tuesday evenings. That night, blonde model Daisy Bunting is at a fashion show when she and the other showgirls hear the news. The blonde girls are horrified, hiding their hair with dark wigs or hats.
- Gaetano di Ventimiglia
- Ivor Montagu
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Eliot Stannard
Apr 26, 2024 · During a rash of murders of young blonde women in London, Daisy (June Tripp) finds herself torn between her Met policeman boyfriend (Malcolm Keen) and a solitary lodger (Ivor Novello). One fits the profile of a serial killer, the other is a solitary lodger.
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.
