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The lodger [videorecording (DVD)] : a story of the London fog / a film by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Criterion Collection, 2017.

Jack, the Ripper -- Drama.

Serial murderers -- Drama.

Alternate title:

Story of the London fog [videorecording (DVD)]

Lodger [videorecording (DVD)]

Downhill [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)] :

Two-DVD special ed.

2 videodiscs (91 min.) : Dolby digital sd., tinted/b&w ; 12 cm.

From the novel by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.

Silent film with added orchestral music.

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: 2K restoration, with a new score by composer Neil Brand, performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul's ; Downhill, another 1927 feature directed by Alfred Hitchcock and 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; 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 ; PLUS: essays on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp.

"A restoration by the BFI National Archive in association with ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Network Releasing and Park Circus Films."--Opening screens.

Disc 1. Lodger -- Disc 2. Downhill.

Scenario, Eliot Stannard ; produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Ivor Novello, June Tripp, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney and Malcolm Keen.

"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 Downhill, 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.

Psychological thriller films.

Lowndes, Marie Belloc, 1868-1947. Lodger.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Novello, Ivor, 1893-1951.

June, 1901-1985.

Ault, Marie, 1870-1951.

Chesney, Arthur, 1882-1949.

Keen, Malcolm, 1887-1970.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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