The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) | |
| Director(s) | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Producer(s) | Michael Balcon (uncredited), Carlyle Blackwell (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Silent Films, Thriller/Suspense |
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Michael Balcon and Carlyle Blackwell.
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Hitchcock Blogathon #5: The Lodger
By RBuccicone on Jan 17, 2011 From MacGuffin MoviesThe Lodger (1926) ???? Hitchcock got his career in films started as soon as the medium?existed in England, it seems. He started as an intertitle designer, did some assisting on pictures and then moved on to directing. The Lodger is if not his best silent film at least the director’s favorite. ... Read full article
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Alfred Hitchcock's cameo as an extra came by accident when he didn't have enough people for extras in a scene, he decided to help by appearing in the scene himself. As a result, he decided to turn his appearance into one of his trademarks with him performing silent walk-on bits in most of his later films appearing as uncredited extras.
Alfred Hitchcock wanted an ambiguous ending to the film, but the studio wouldn't allow it to be implied that the lodger might actually be the murderer.
The original novel ends ambiguously, with the reader never sure if the lodger was the murderer or not. Reportedly Alfred Hitchcock wanted to film it that way but the studio forced a rewrite of the ending, as it was felt that audiences wouldn't like a popular star like Ivor Novello to be shown as a possible killer. Some other adaptations of the story have also changed the ending, to one where the lodger is definitively proven to be the killer.
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Alfred Hitchcock wanted an ambiguous ending to the film, but the studio wouldn't allow it to be implied that the lodger might actually be the murderer.
The original novel ends ambiguously, with the reader never sure if the lodger was the murderer or not. Reportedly Alfred Hitchcock wanted to film it that way but the studio forced a rewrite of the ending, as it was felt that audiences wouldn't like a popular star like Ivor Novello to be shown as a possible killer. Some other adaptations of the story have also changed the ending, to one where the lodger is definitively proven to be the killer.
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