The lodger A story of the London fog
DVD - 2017
This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse, just as a killer who preys on blonde women, known as the Avenger, descends upon the city. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Silent films
Crime films
Detective and mystery films
Film adaptations
Feature films - Published
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[Irvington, New York] :
The Criterion Collection
[2017]
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
- Item Description
- Silent film with added orchestral music.
Lidger is from the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.
1.33:1 aspect ratio.
Includes the 1927 silent Hitchcock film, Downhill, also known as When boys leave home: Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend's theft and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures.
Special features: Downhill, director Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 feature film starring Ivor Novello, in a 2k digital restoration with a new piano score by Brand; new interview with film scholar William Rothman on Hitchcock's visual signatures; new video essay by art historian Steven Jacobs about Hitchcock's use of architecture; excerpts from audio interviews with Hitchcock by filmmakers François Truffaut (1962) and Peter Bogdanovich (1963); radio adaptation of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock; new interview with Brand on composing for silent film; essays on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Production Credits
- The lodger: composer, Neil Brand; music performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul's ; editor and titling, Ivor Montagu ; photography, Gaetano di Ventimiglia ; assistant director, Alma Reville.
Downhill: photography, Claude McDonnell ; editor, Lionel Rich. - ISBN
- 9781681433189
- disc 1. Lodger
- disc 2. Downhill / directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; produced by Michael Balcon, C.M. Woolf ; screenplay by Elliot Stannard ; story by David L'Estrange.
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