The lodger : a story of the London fog

Publication/Creation:

[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

Resource Type:

Video or Visual Material

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

The lodger : a story of the London fog / Michael Balcon and Carlyle Blackwell, by arrangement with C.M. Woolf, present ; scenario, Eliot Stannard ; produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Uniform Title:

Lodger (Motion picture : 1927)

Series Titles:

The Criterion collection ; 885
Criterion collection ; 885.

Related/Included Titles:

Lodger.
Downhill (Motion picture)
Lodger (Radio play)

Variant Titles:

Story of the London fog

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, film director
Balcon, Michael, 1896-1977, film producer
Blackwell, Carlyle, 1888-1955, film producer
Stannard, Eliot, screenwriter
Di Ventimiglia, Gaetano, director of photography
Brand, Neil, composer (expression)
Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, 1904-1984, editor of moving image work
Arnold, C. Wilfred, art director
Evans, Bertram, art director
Novello, Ivor, 1893-1951, actor
Ault, Marie, 1870-1951, actor
Chesney, Arthur, 1882-1949, actor
Tripp, June, 1901-1985, actor
Keen, Malcolm, 1887-1970, actor
Lowndes, Marie Belloc, 1868-1947. Lodger
Gainsborough Studios, production company
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Motion pictures
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Crime films
Detective and mystery films
Silent films
Film adaptations
Feature films
Fiction films

Subjects:

Serial murderers--England--London--Drama
Boardinghouses--England--London--Drama
Landlord and tenant--England--London--Drama

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

disc 1. The Lodger -- disc 2. Downhill / C.M. Woolf and Michael Balcon present ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; scenario, Eliot Stannard.

Summary:

"With his third feature film, The Lodger: a Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idol Ivor Novello) who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse just as a killer known as the Avenger descends upon the city, preying on blonde women. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions. In this release, The Lodger is accompanied by Downshill, another silent from 1927 that explores Hitchcock's "wrong man" trope, also headlined by Novello--making for a double feature that reveals the master of the macabre as he was just coming into his own"--Container.

Language Note:

Silent film with English intertitles and orchestral score.

Physical Type/Description:

2 videodiscs (91 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert

Technical Note:

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full frame (1.33:1 aspect ratio); stereo, Dolby Digital.

General Note:

Title from title frame.
Based on the novel by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.
"A restoration by the BFI National Archive in association with ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Network Releasing and Park Circus Films"--Opening screens.
Includes the 1927 silent Hitchcock film, Downhill, also known as When boys leave home: Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend's theft and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures.
Special features: Downhill, director Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 feature film 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; The Bunting House: 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; essays (in insert) on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp.

Participant/Performer Note:

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

Creation/Production Credits Note:

Director of photography, Baron Ventimiglia ; art directors, C. Wilfrid Arnold and Bertram Evans ; editor and titling, Ivor Montagu ; new orchestral score, Neil Brand ; music performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul's.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936642602802486

ISBN:

9781681433189
1681433184

OCLC Number:

987271975

Other Identifiers:

Universal Product Code: 715515198912

Publisher Number:

CC2775DDVD The Criterion Collection

Barcode:

010003003563