The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

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British film black-and-white film film silent film thriller film

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent thriller film widely regarded as Alfred Hitchcock’s first true suspense masterpiece, centering on a mysterious tenant suspected of being a serial killer.

Aliases (1)

The Lodger ×2

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British film → black-and-white film → film → silent film → thriller film →
basedOn	The Lodger → novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes →
cinematographyBy	Baron Ventimiglia →
colorProcess	black and white →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom →
criticalReception	widely acclaimed →
describedAs	Hitchcock’s first suspense masterpiece →
director	Alfred Hitchcock →
distributionFormat	silent with intertitles →
distributor	Woolf & Freedman Film Service →
featuresCharacterType	serial killer suspect →
filmEditingBy	Alfred Hitchcock →
filmingLocation	London →
genre	crime film → silent film → thriller →
hasTheme	fear and suspicion → mistrust of strangers → urban crime →
inspiredBy	Jack the Ripper murders →
musicBy	Ivor Montagu →
narrativeFocus	mysterious tenant suspected of being a serial killer →
notableFor	considered Alfred Hitchcock’s first true suspense film → early example of Hitchcock’s visual style → use of expressionist lighting and visual motifs →
originalLanguage	Silent →
partOf	Alfred Hitchcock filmography →
producer	C. M. Woolf → Michael Balcon →
productionCompany	Gainsborough Pictures →
publicationDate	1927 →
releaseYear	1927 →
runtimeMinutes	~90 →
screenwriter	Eliot Stannard →
setInPeriod	contemporary 1920s London →
settingLocation	London →
shortTitle	The Lodger →
starred	Arthur Chesney → Ivor Novello → June Tripp → Malcolm Keen → Marie Ault →
title	The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog ("The Lodger") →	basedOn
Alfred Hitchcock →	directed
Alfred Hitchcock →	notableWork
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog ("The Lodger") →	shortTitle
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog →	title