Based on the novel by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. Originally made in England in 1926 by Gainsborough Pictures. Silent film with English intertitles; classical music score added. Ivor Novello, Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney.
Summary:
This variation on the Jack-the-Ripper story is the first film to display many of the characteristics which scholars today point to as representative of the Hitchcockian style. In the film, the central character, called simply "The Lodger" (Ivor Novello), is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting (Arthur Chesny and Marie Ault), seems mysterious, he is suspected of being the notorious "Avenger," a killer who has been stalking women in London and strangling them.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)30802351
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)
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