The Lodger (1927) 06/20/17

Hitchcock’s first self-professed ‘Hitch’ picture is still a silent-screen winner. Many of his recurring themes are present, and some of his visual fluidity – in this finely tuned commercial ‘shock’ movie with witty visual tricks from Hitchcock’s own background as an art director. And hey, he secured a real box office name to star as the mysterious maybe-slayer ‘The Avenger,’ Ivor Novello. As an extra we also get Hitchcock’s 1927 silent Downhill. From The Criterion Collection.
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