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The Lodger (1926)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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From Time Out Film Guide
'In truth you might almost say that The Lodger was my first picture.' Indeed, what makes the film (from a novel by Mrs Belloc Lowndes) so fascinating is the way it dissolves into pre-echoes of Hitchcock's later work. His concern with the uncertain line between guilt and innocence, his confident dismissal of the minutiae of the plot, the disturbing intrusions of fetishistic sexuality, are as apparent here as they are in Psycho. The tone is lighter (despite the Ripper-esque story) and the tone more superficial, but the film has its own vigorous identity, and there are moments - Novello coming out of the fog to make the lights dim and the cuckoo clock go berserk - which are memorably effective.Author: RMy
Cast & crew
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Michael Balcon, Carlyle Blackwell
Cast: Ivor Novello, Miss June, Marie Ault, Athur Chesney, Malcolm Keen full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 96 mins
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