The lodger

Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ην. Βασίλειο/UK, 1927, 90’ DCP, α/μ/b&w, Χωρίς ήχο/Silent

The lodger is Hitchcock’s first important film: “The whole approach to this film was instinctive with me. It was the first time I exercised my style. In truth, you might almost say that The lodger was my first picture”, he recounts to Truffaut. Shot during his silent period in England, the film tells the adventures of a lodger of a furnished apartment, until the landlady sees in his face the wanted murderer. It launches the theme that recurs in his later work, which, as Truffaut ascertains, is about: “A man accused of a crime of which he’s innocent”.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Alfred Hitchcock
Σενάριο/Screenplay: Eliot Stannard [βασισμένο στο ομώνυμο μυθιστόρημα της/based on the homonymous novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes]
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Gaetano di Ventimiglia
Μοντάζ/Editing: Ivor Montagu
Μουσική/ Music: Ashley Irwin
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, Ivor Novello
Παραγωγή/Production: Michael Balcon, Carlyle Blackwell, C.M. Woolf
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Park Circus

* Original music performance from Minas I. Alexiadis

* Suitable for English speaking audience