The lodger
Subtitle: a story of the London fog
By: produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; scenario, Eliot Stannard ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Contributors: Ault, Marie, 1870-1951, actor; Chesney, Arthur, 1882-1949, actor; Tripp, June, 1901-1985, actor; Lowndes, Marie Belloc, 1868-1947
Series: The Criterion collection -- 885; Criterion collection -- 885.
Published: 2017
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Drama; Boardinghouses; Film adaptations; Serial murders
Other titles: Story of the London fog; Downhill (Motion picture); Lodger (Motion picture : 1927)
Description: A landlady begins to suspect that one of her lodgers might be killing the local women.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1927.

Based on the novel by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes.

Full screen 1.33:1.

Essays on The lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp in container.

Features: new score by composer Neil Brand, performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul's; director Alfred Hitchcock's feature film Downhill (1927) 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.

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

MPAA rating: Not rated.

For private home use only.

Silent with English intertitles and musical score.