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The lodger : a story of the London fog
Uniform Title
Lodger (Motion picture : 1927)
Title
The lodger : a story of the London fog / Michael Balcon and Carlyle Blackwell, by arrangement with C.M. Woolf, present ; scenario, Eliot Stannard ; produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
ISBN
9781681433189
1681433184
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Publication
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (91 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Medium
4 3/4 in. stamping
DVD video 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from title frame.
The lodger based on the novel by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes; Downhill based on the play by Ivor Novello and Constance Collier.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.
"A restoration by the BFI National Archive in association with ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Network Releasing and Park Circus Films"--Opening screens.
Includes the 1927 silent Hitchcock film, Downhill, also known as When boys leave home: Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend's theft and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures.
Special features: Downhill, director Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 feature film starring Ivor Novello, in a 2k digital restoration with a new piano score by Brand; new interview with film scholar William Rothman on Hitchcock's visual signatures; The Bunting House: new video essay by art historian Steven Jacobs about Hitchcock's use of architecture; excerpts from audio interviews with Hitchcock by filmmakers François Truffaut (1962) and Peter Bogdanovich (1963); radio adaptation of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock; new interview with Brand on composing for silent film; essays (in insert) on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp.
The lodger: director of photography, Baron Ventimiglia ; art directors, C. Wilfrid Arnold and Bertram Evans ; editor and titling, Ivor Montagu ; new orchestral score, Neil Brand ; music performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul's.
Downhill: director of photography, Claude McDonnell; editor, Lionel Rich.
Silent film with English intertitles and orchestral score.
Summary
"With his third feature film, The Lodger: a Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idol Ivor Novello) who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse just as a killer known as the Avenger descends upon the city, preying on blonde women. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions. In this release, The Lodger is accompanied by Downshill, another silent from 1927 that explores Hitchcock's "wrong man" trope, also headlined by Novello--making for a double feature that reveals the master of the macabre as he was just coming into his own"--Container.
Variant and related titles
Story of the London fog
Downhill
Downhill also known as: When boys leave home
Downhill (Motion picture)
Lodger (Radio play)
Format
Images / Video & Film
Added to Catalog
May 04, 2018
Series
The Criterion Collection ; 885
Credits
The lodger: director of photography, Baron Ventimiglia ; art directors, C. Wilfrid Arnold and Bertram Evans ; editor and titling, Ivor Montagu ; new orchestral score, Neil Brand ; music performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul's.
Downhill: director of photography, Claude McDonnell; editor, Lionel Rich.
Cast
Cast of The lodger: Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen.
Cast of Downhill: Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel, Ian Hunter, Isabel Jeans, Jerrold Robertshaw, Sybil Rhoda, Annette Benson, Lilian Braithwaite.
System details note
DVD; region 1, NTSC; full frame (1.33:1 aspect ratio); stereo, Dolby Digital.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Contents
disc 1. The Lodger
disc 2. Downhill / C.M. Woolf and Michael Balcon present ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; scenario, Eliot Stannard as David L'Estrange.
Videorecording number
CC2775DDVD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Crime films.
Detective and mystery films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Silent films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Crime films.
Detective and mystery films.
Silent films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Silent films - Great Britain.
Feature films - Great Britain.
Also listed under
Gainsborough Studios, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
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