Cinema as it used to be: a retrospective of 1920s silent films accompanied on the piano by Andrea Cavallo, with commentary by Angela Brindisi.
The Lodger, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
A strange character, Jonathan Drew, turns up at the Buntings’ house looking for a room to rent, whilst the whole of London is on the hunt for a serial killer with a fixation on murdering blonde women, known as ‘the Avenger’. Daisy Bunting, the beautiful daughter of the landlords, is engaged to Joe Chandler, one of the detectives hunting the killer. He soon becomes jealous of the new lodger and begins to suspect that Drew is the killer.
“It is no exaggeration to say that we may well be looking at the most important film of all time. A film that has no equal so far in the still young history of cinema and which, in all likelihood, will continue to be talked about for a long time to come, along with its legacy” (Bioscope, 16 September 1927).
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