![]() ![]() Plus, it's the film that got Hitchcock noticed in British cinema. "The Lodger" is worth watching for its atmospheric visuals and its codifying of themes Hitchcock would return to over and over. Novello would go on to write and star in Hitchcock's next film, "Downhill" (1927), and Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville, was Assistant Director and would continue to be an important part of his filmmaking process. Novello fit Hitchcock's "touch" of using well-known actors to portray innocents accused of dastardly crimes, both to engender audience sympathy and to play against type.Īlthough Hitchcock was held up as an example of an auteur by Truffaut, his work was often more collaborative than the term implies. He falls under suspicion due to his obsessively private behavior, which is actually just a response to a deeply personal tragedy. ![]() ![]() Matinee idol Ivor Novello plays the title character, a secretive man who is believed to be "The Avenger," a Jack the Ripper-like killer murdering blonde women in London. ![]() The film is based on a novel, "The Lodger," by Marie Belloc Lowndes, which was turned into a play called "Who Is He?" that Hitchcock saw. ![]()
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