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VHS : The Lodger - A Story Of The London Fog [1927]
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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5024165869642 Format: Black & White, PAL, Silent Label: Bfi Video Manufacturer: Bfi Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Bfi Video Release Date: December 06, 1999 Running Time: 113 minutes Sales Rank: 16604 Studio: Bfi Video Theatrical Release Date: 1926 |
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Although Alfred Hitchcock had made two movies before The Lodger, he told François Truffaut that this was his first true film. And indeed, The Lodger contains elements that would appear again and again in the Master's later, more famous creations. It boasts the first of the famous 'wrong man' plots and contains the first sequence in which handcuffs play a significant role. If your eye is quick, you will also catch the first of Hitchcock's famous cameo appearances (he actually appears on-screen more than once).
The Lodger is also one of the first memorable pictures about the hunt for a serial killer. Terrified women and strange masked men walk the streets of London in a movie whose visual style was influenced by the German expressionists. In one tense sequence, the ceiling of a room becomes transparent and a character can be seen pacing back and forth on the floor above. The climactic chase is one of the most exciting Hitchcock ever filmed. This taut early film is a fine introduction to the silent cinema as well as to one of the world's greatest and most entertaining filmmakers. --Raphael Shargel
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- A fascinating silent film directed by Alfred HitchcockI am a relative newcomer to silent films, so I can not pontificate on all of the nuances and wonderful subtleties The Lodger surely showcases. I can say that I enjoyed this film very much; the story retained its vigor throughout, and some of my preconceived notions regarding the conclusion were proven quite wrong. The Lodger bears the unmistakable influence of the Jack the Ripper murders. A number of fair-haired young ladies have been murdered on successive Tuesday nights in London, and the police ... Read More
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- Silent HitchcockAlthough the style appeared to be quite chilling, I was not convinced by the depth of character of the lodger to take him seriously. He appeared very wooden, Victorian and somewhat stagey in the vein of a serious pantomime. The film does demonstrate some of Hitchcock's early style of shocking audiences, but it is not a film that stands the test of time.
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- Alfred Hitchcocks' "The Lodger" (1925)This third film of Alfred Hitchcock's was his first thriller. This inspired account of a Jack-the-Ripper-style murderer named "The Avenger", who kills blond-haired women on Tuesday nights in London, shows a young and creative directorial talent at work.
Hitchcock worked from his own scenario of star Ivor Novello's stage play for this initial foray into what would later be familiar Hitchcock territory. Novello portrays a strange and aloof lodger, who stays in a room above a lower-middle-class ... Read More
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- The first "Hitchcock" film?If you're looking for a way in to early Hitchcock then The Lodger is a good a place to start. It is the first suspense flick Hitch turned his attentions to, and his talent for the genre shines through immediately.
The story is derived from the Jack The Ripper tale, and remember, the 1926 London shown in this movie is not so different from the city that suffered the ravages of the Ripper. The atmosphere throughout is genuinely eerie and seedy -- a good historical document!
Ivor Novello ... Read More
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