The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

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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.

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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, England
surface form: London
genre crime film
silent film
thriller
hasTheme fear and suspicion
mistrust of strangers
urban crime
inspiredBy Whitechapel
surface form: 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
Sir Michael Balcon
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productionCompany Gainsborough Pictures
publicationDate 1927
releaseYear 1927
runtimeMinutes ~90
screenwriter Eliot Stannard
setInPeriod contemporary 1920s London
settingLocation London, England
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starred Arthur Chesney
Ivor Novello
June Tripp
Malcolm Keen
Marie Ault
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