De Alfred Hitchcock The Lodger (1927)

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) é un dos primeiros filmes mudos de Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock filmed an adaptation of the Marie Belloc Lowndes story and play based on the Jack the Ripper murders. Hitchcock dirixiu a película en 1926. It was released in February 1927 en Londres. It did not make it to the United States until 1928.

A película comeza coa última Avenger (Jack the Ripper prototipo) asasinato. Un policía e varios transeúntes atoparon o corpo dunha nena asasinada cunha nota de “o Avenger” preso a ela.

Mr. ea Sra. Bunting están esperando na súa casa, onde eles teñen un cuarto para alugar. Eles están preocupados pola súa filla Margarida, desempeñou ata xuño Tripp, que é unha showgirl. Eles sentan-se todas as noites ata que chega na casa por mor dos asasinatos Vingador.

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Joe, un detective de Londres, is in love with Daisy. Joe foi designado para o caso Avenger. Joe está dando o Buntings unha actualización sobre a investigación dos asasinatos Vingador, Daisy cando chega.

Poucos minutos despois,, o Lodger, played by Ivor Novello, entra na casa cara o cuarto deixala. Mrs. Bunting is reluctant to rent the room until the Lodger pays a month’s rent in advance.

The Lodger arouses the suspicion of the nervous Buntings and Joe. They find The Lodger’s habits, like turning around the pictures of women in his room so they are not looking at him, to be very odd. The Lodger also tends to go out and stay out late. Joe and the Buntings start to believe the Lodger is the Avenger.

Daisy is the only person, que non pensa o Lodger é o Vingador. Daisy is clearly falling for the Lodger. Will it lead to her death?

Ivor Novello naceu en Cardiff, Gales en xaneiro 15, 1893, Era considerado un prodixio musical como un neno. El escribiu a canción patriótica da Primeira Guerra Mundial, "Mantén os lumes Home Burning". En 1921, empezou a actuar en filme mudo debido a os seus principais home mira. Novello acted in 23 películas de 1921 para 1934 before refocusing his artistic talents to music. Novello died of heart failure in London on March 6, 1951 aos 58.

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