The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) |
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| Director(s) | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Producer(s) | Michael Balcon (uncredited), Carlyle Blackwell (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Silent Films, Thriller/Suspense |
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Reginald Gardiner(as Dancer at Ball)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Released
1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Released
1927
Reginald Gardiner
(as Dancer at Ball)
Alfred Hitchcock(as Extra in Newspaper Office)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Released
1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Released
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
(as Extra in Newspaper Off...)
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Michael Balcon and Carlyle Blackwell.
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The Lodger (1926) Hitchcock got his career in films started as soon as the medium existed in England, it seems. He started as an intertitle designer, did some assisting on pictures and then moved on to directing. The Lodger is if not his best silent film at least the director’s favor... Read full article
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For the opening of the film, 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.
Alfred Hitchcock:
a desk in the newsroom early in the film. Some people claim he also appears later in the crowd lynch scene.
Alfred Hitchcock wanted an ambiguous ending to the film, but the studio wouldn't allow it to be implied that the lodger might actually be the murderer.
For the opening scene, where the Avenger's murder victim faces the camera and screams, Alfred Hitchcock filmed the scene by having the actress lie down on a large sheet of glass, with her golden hair spread out around her head. He then lit the actress from underneath the sheet of glass, and filmed her with a camera mounted on its side, with the lens pointed at a downward angle. This gave the appearance that the actress's hair (with its golden curls, so important to the murderer) was ringed in a halo of light.
Hitchcock told François Truffaut that, though he had made two films prior to this, he considered this his first true film.