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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

Crime | 74 minutes / 90 minutes (gerestaureerde versie)
3,38 159 votes

Genre: Crime / Thriller

Duration: 74 minuten / 90 minuten (gerestaureerde versie)

Alternative title: De Geheimzinnige Gast

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Stars: Ivor Novello, Arthur Chesney and Ivor Novello

IMDb score: 7,3 (14.810)

Releasedate: 14 February 1927

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog plot

Haunted by the news of a seventh murder by the mysterious 'Avenger', Daisy Bunting, a blond model, is on her way to the home of her mother and father and their guest house detective Joe Betts. Joe is also Daisy's friend. mrs. Bunting rents out a room to a curious stranger that Daisy is slowly attracted to. For Joe, all this does not go unnoticed and it stirs a feeling of jealousy in him.

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Actors and actresses

The Lodger Jonathan Drew

Mrs. Bunting the Landlady

Daisy Bunting

Joe Chandler

Dancer at Ball (uncredited)

Showgirl Victim (uncredited)

Man in Newspaper Office (uncredited)

Woman Listening to Wireless (uncredited)

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Ebenezer Scrooge

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I read The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes from 1913 a long time ago. A romanticized book about the Ripper case, which tells of a mysterious tenant who could be Jack the Ripper. Hitchcock based his silent film on this book, but changed a few things; the killer here is not Jack the Ripper but someone called The Avenger. The Avenger? Who is he avenging himself on, I wonder? To his own mother? In any case, Freud has established that the deepest motive in this kind of murderer lies somewhere in a disturbed relationship with one's own mother: the Freudian matricide. The stranger who rents the room demands that all the framed pictures of blondes on the wall be turned over. Haha, what a hoot! Who hangs pictures of blondes on the wall anyway? Then you must be some kind of pervert. I also liked the ending with the angry mob. You see it more often in this kind of business; the people are so overjoyed that they would rather see an innocent person end up in prison than no perpetrator at all.

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Bobbejaantje

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The very first stupid (no pun) Hitchcock I've watched.

The first half of the film takes its time to map out the characters of the various characters and their interrelationships, with few or no tense moments, if that should be a benchmark for Hitchcock. Still very beautifully filmed, with a noticeable influence of German expressionism, which was also acknowledged by the master himself in an interview. See also what has already been written about this on the forum.

The second half gets a bit more exciting, I felt more involved as a viewer. It might have become an even better film if they had kept more to the novella and left it in the dark whether or not the tenant is guilty. But apparently they didn't want to do that for commercial reasons.
The actors were on their way, I thought, nothing to criticize. I also enjoyed the scenes in which the models parade in 1920s outfits … stylish times for sure.

Nice to have seen this one. I think it's a well-crafted thriller, without being a masterpiece, when I weigh it against the stiff competition of the 1920s.

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Dievegge

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The young Hitchcock immediately showed his aptitude for visual thinking. For a declaration of love, he had the suitor cut hearts out of a slice of dough. He made full use of smoke, steam, rain, gas lanterns and the London fog. There are moving shadows, and a window causes a cross to fall on the tenant's face. He used different color filters: blue for outdoors at night, yellow or pink for indoors.

The pensioners live in a basement, so you can see the lower limbs of pedestrians passing by. In their imagination they see their commensal through a glass ceiling. Then his hand slides down the banister, like an amputated body part. He remains mysterious for a long time because he is shown through other people's eyes. Shortly before the climax, a flashback reveals his true intent.

The book was inspired by Jack the Ripper. However, the good-looking Ivor Novello, also popular as a songwriter, was not allowed to play a murderer. The innocence of the suspect led to the theme of sensationalism and mass hysteria, which led to a great climax
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Hitchcock's obsession with blondes had apparently already begun. He has his very first cameo at five minutes, not at the end - contrary to what Truffaut said. More remarkable is that his wife Alma also has a cameo, after seven minutes as a radio listener. It is the start of a great filmography and a pinnacle of the British silent era.

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