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7.3/10
12K
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A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
12K
YOUR RATING
- Director
- Writers
- Marie Belloc Lowndes(from the novel by)
- Eliot Stannard(scenario)
- Alfred Hitchcock(uncredited)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Marie Belloc Lowndes(from the novel by)
- Eliot Stannard(scenario)
- Alfred Hitchcock(uncredited)
- Stars
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
Daisy Campbell
- Motheras Mother
- (uncredited)
Maudie Dunham
- First Victimas First Victim
- (uncredited)
Reginald Gardiner
- Dancer at Ballas Dancer at Ball
- (uncredited)
Eve Gray
- Showgirl Victimas Showgirl Victim
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Marie Belloc Lowndes(from the novel by) (play "Who Is He?")
- Eliot Stannard(scenario)
- Alfred Hitchcock(uncredited)
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Storyline
A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the loose in London, murdering blonde women. A mysterious man arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for a room to rent. The Bunting's daughter is a blonde model and is seeing one of the detectives assigned to the case. The detective becomes jealous of the lodger and begins to suspect he may be the avenger. —Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
- Genres
- Certificate
- Not Rated
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Did you know
- TriviaFor the opening of this movie, Alfred Hitchcock wanted to show the Avenger's murder victim being dragged out of the Thames River at night with the Charing Cross Bridge in the background, but Scotland Yard refused his request to film at the bridge. Hitchcock repeated his request several times, until Scotland Yard notified him that they would "look the other way" if he could do the filming in one night. Hitchcock quickly sent his cameras and actors out to Charing Cross Bridge to film the scene, but when the rushes came back from the developers, the scene at the bridge was nowhere to be found. Hitchcock and his assistants searched through the prints, but could not find it. Finally, Hitchcock discovered that his cameraman had forgotten to put the lens on the camera before filming the night scene.
- GoofsFrom 24.56 until 27.31 minutes - The Lodger (Ivor Novello) and Daisy (June Tripp) are seen playing a game of chess, unfortunately the chess board was incorrectly set up, so that the bottom-right square is black. At 25.57 minutes, the improper backwards set up is obvious.
- Crazy creditsClosing credits: Thank you to everyone who supported the BFI's Silent Hitchcock restoration project.
- Alternate versionsThe original version of The Lodger directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926 was restored in 1999 in honor of the directors 100th anniversary. The film was restored by the British National Film & TV Archives and a new score by Ashley Irwin was commissioned by ZDF/ARTE (Germany) and premiered on August 13, 1999 (what would have been Hitchcock's 100th birthday).
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une vague nouvelle (1999)
Top review
The real Hitchcock is born
This is the first real Hitchcock movie. The one in which he really starts to use all his abilities, although we can see that they are still not mature yet. It's very interesting because he makes a lot of experiments in this film, like the glass ceiling, and we see how hard he wanted, at the time, to really make his mark, to stand above the rest. Although the ending is not very good, the first 20 minutes of The Lodger are impressive, with Hitchcock slowly telling us (visually, of course) about the killer and his particularities, until the arrival of Ivor Novello. A must-see picture to any real Hitchcock fan
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- MR 17
- Oct 15, 1998
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Box office
- Budget
- £12,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $83,260
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) officially released in India in English?
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