The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

UK, 1928. Director Alfred Hitchcock. 98min.

The Lodger was Hitchcock’s first critical and commercial success, and inspired several subsequent remakes. This Jack the Ripper-type story of a serial killer who, like Hitchcock himself, has a thing for blondes. Audaciously photographed, the film combines sinister scenes of London streets and interiors with equally urban and modern images of media hysteria and mannequin dressing-room thrills.

With Ivor Novello and June Tripp.

Past screenings

If Looks Could Kill – London
Tuesday 13 May 2008, 18:30 | BFI Southbank, NFT1
With live musical accompaniment and introduction by Alice Rawsthorn, Design Critic of the International Herald Tribune.