This week, we are back to Hitchcock’s silent era for the first time in months, with the long-awaited 1927 thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. It’s the story of a mysterious tenant at a family-run inn, who may or may not be an at-large serial killer. The film launched Alfred Hitchcock’s career.
***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes.
Details: A Gainsborough Picture released on February 14, 1927. Produced by Michael Balcon, Carlyle Blackwell, and C. M. Woolf. Screenplay by Eliot Stannard, based on the 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Starring Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, and Malcolm Keen. Cinematography by Gaetano di Ventimiglia.
Ranking: 24 out of 52. Ranking movies is a reductive parlor game. It’s also fun. And it’s a good way to frame a discussion. We aggregated over 70 ranked lists from critics, fans, and magazines The Lodger got 1,693 ranking points.