The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | |
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![]() US bootleg DVD pairing the film with Hitchcock's Murder! (1930) | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
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Screenplay by | Eliot Stannard |
Based on | The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes |
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Cinematography | Gaetano di Ventimiglia |
Edited by | Ivor Montagu |
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Running time | 90 minutes (2012 restoration)[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent film with English intertitles |
Budget | UK £12,000 |
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, and Ivor Novello. Hitchcock's third feature film, it was released on 14 February 1927 in London and on 10 June 1928 in New York City. Based on the 1913 novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes and the play Who Is He? co-written by Belloc Lowndes, the film is about the hunt for a "Jack the Ripper"-like serial killer in London.[1]