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Titre original : The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

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Psychological Drama Psychological Thriller Serial Killer Whodunnit Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

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Daisy Campbell

Mother
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Maudie Dunham

First Victim
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Reginald Gardiner

Dancer at Ball
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Eve Gray

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Alma Reville

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Anecdotes
For the opening of this movie, Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted to show the Avenger's murder victim being dragged out of the Thames River at night with the Charing Cross Bridge in the background, but Scotland Yard refused his request to film at the bridge. Hitchcock repeated his request several times, until Scotland Yard notified him that they would "look the other way" if he could do the filming in one night. Hitchcock quickly sent his cameras and actors out to Charing Cross Bridge to film the scene, but when the rushes came back from the developers, the scene at the bridge was nowhere to be found. Hitchcock and his assistants searched through the prints, but could not find it. Finally, Hitchcock discovered that his cameraman had forgotten to put the lens on the camera before filming the night scene.

Gaffes
When The Lodger (Ivor Novello) and Daisy (June Tripp) are playing chess, but the board is set up inappropriately. The square in the right corner should always be white. In this case, the bottom-right square is dark (black). This is the most obvious when The Lodger (Ivor Novello) is poking the coals in the fireplace.

Citations
Joe Betts: When I've put a rope round the Avenger's neck, I'll put a ring around Daisy's finger.

Crédits fous
Closing credits: Thank you to everyone who supported the BFI's Silent Hitchcock restoration project.

Versions alternatives
The original version of The Lodger directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926 was restored in 1999 in honor of the directors 100th anniversary. The film was restored by the British National Film & TV Archives and a new score by Ashley Irwin was commissioned by ZDF/ARTE (Germany) and premiered on August 13, 1999 (what would have been Hitchcock's 100th birthday).

Connexions
Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une vague nouvelle (1999)

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8/10

A very good early Hitchcock film

A story loosely based on Jack the Ripper. In London a killer called the Avenger goes around killing blond-haired girls. Around this time Mr. and Mrs. Bunting take in a lodger (Ivor Novello). He's quiet but very odd. He takes a liking to their blond-haired daughter Daisy (June Tripp). But then the Buntings begin to suspect that he may be the Avenger and want Daisy as his next victim...

Hitchcock's first thriller and a very good one. Very few title cards are used--he uses images to carry the film. Sometimes it works but, more than once, I was confused. It was one of his first films though so this can be forgiven. It also moves a bit too slow. But it's still worth seeing.

You can see the beginnings of his later work peeking through and there are some sequences so well directed that they're stunning (the one where Novello and Tripp kiss is just SO beautiful). Also the acting is actually quite good by everybody--especially Novello. He was a box office draw in the 1920s and it's easy to see why. The man is not only a good actor he was undeniably beautiful. It's easy to see why he was once called one of the most beautiful men alive.

Novello was gay--I wonder if Hitch knew that. There are two lines in this film where people talk about his character--"Good thing he doesn't like girls" and "Even if he is a bit queer". These lines are quite interesting now--I wonder if they were put in on purpose or just happened to be written without anyone knowing. Interesting to think about...