UK, 1926
83m, 2342.39 metres/6 reels
35mm film, black and white, 1.33:1
silent
A British horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Plot Summary
London is terrorized by a serial killer dubbed The Avenger by the press, preying exclusively on blonde haired women. Amidst the mayhem, a mysterious stranger takes up lodgings at the boarding house run by Mr. and Mrs Bunting. He ventures out during foggy nights, has a photograph of a blonde woman in his room and takes an interest in the Bunting's blonde-haired daughter. Could he be The Avenger?
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Michael Balcon and Carlyle Blackwell by arrangement with C.M. Woolf present. Produced by Gainsborough Pictures. Controlled throughout the world by Piccadilly Pictures, Ltd.
United Kingdom Rights: W&F Film Service Ltd.
Scenario: Eliot Stannard, Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited)
From the novel by Mrs Belloc Lowndes
Assistant Director: Alma Reville
Photography: Baron Ventimiglia
Editing and Titling: Ivor Montagu
Music: Ashley Irwin (1999 re-issue); Nitin Sawhney (2012 re-issue)
Scoring Mixer: Malcolm Luker (1999 re-issue)
Title Designs: E. McKnight Kauffer
Art Directors: C. Wilfrid Arnold and Bertram Evans
Studio: Islington Studios, London, England, UK *
Cast
Ivor Novello (Jonathan Drew (the lodger))
Marie Ault [the landlady [Mrs Bunting]] *
Arthur Chesney [her husband [Mr Bunting]] *
June Tripp [Daisy Bunting, a mannequin] *
Malcolm Keen [Joe Chandler] *
Helena Pick [Anne Rowley] *
Alfred Hitchcock [extra in arrest scene] *
Alternative Titles
The Case of Jonathan Drew
Les Cheveux d'or – France
El enemigo de las rubias – Spain
O Hóspede – Portugal
El inquilino – Venezuela
L'inquilino – Italy
The Lodger
London-mysteriet – Denmark
Der Mieter – Eine Geschichte aus dem Londoner Nebel – Germany
Der Mieter – Germany
Il pensionante – Italy
Links
Remakes
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
Man in the Attic (1954)
See also
Peeping Tom (1960)
Summer of Sam (1999)
The Wrong Trousers (1993)
Extracts included in
78/52 (2017)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock (1973)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1996)
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius (1999)
References
Books
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis 230-231
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.264 – credits
- Serial Killer Cinema: An Analytical Filmography by Robert Cetti p.255-256
Other sources
- BFI Southbank Guide June 2012 p.18 – illustrated listing
- BFI Southbank Guide August 2013 p.23 – illustrated listing
