| Description |
2 videodiscs (91 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. stamping rda |
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DVD video 4 3/4 in. rda |
| Description |
digital optical stereo Dolby Digital rda |
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fullscreen |
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NTSC rda |
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video file DVD video region 1 rda |
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Motion picture lcsh |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 885.
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| System Details |
DVD; region 1, NTSC; full frame (1.33:1 aspect ratio); stereo, Dolby Digital. |
| Language |
Silent film with English intertitles and orchestral score. |
| Cast |
Cast of The lodger: Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen. |
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Cast of Downhill: Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel, Ian Hunter, Isabel Jeans, Jerrold Robertshaw, Sybil Rhoda, Annette Benson, Lilian Braithwaite. |
| Credits |
The lodger: 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. |
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Downhill: director of photography, Claude McDonnell; editor, Lionel Rich. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| 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. |
| 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 as David L'Estrange. |
| Subject |
Serial murderers -- England -- London -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Boardinghouses -- England -- London -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Landlord and tenant -- England -- London -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Lowndes, Marie Belloc, 1868-1947 -- Film adaptations.
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| Genre |
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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Crime films.
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Detective and mystery films.
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Silent films.
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Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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DVD-video discs.
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| Added Author |
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, film director.
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Balcon, Michael, 1896-1977, film producer.
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Blackwell, Carlyle, 1888-1955, film producer.
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Stannard, Eliot, screenwriter.
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Di Ventimiglia, Gaetano, director of photography.
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Brand, Neil, composer (expression)
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Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, 1904-1984, editor of moving image work.
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Arnold, C. Wilfred, art director.
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Evans, Bertram, art director.
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Novello, Ivor, 1893-1951, actor.
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Ault, Marie, 1870-1951, actor.
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Chesney, Arthur, 1882-1949, actor.
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Tripp, June, 1901-1985, actor.
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Keen, Malcolm, 1887-1970, actor.
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Webster, Benjamin, 1864-1947, actor.
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McKinnel, Norman, 1870-1932, actor.
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Irvine, Robin, 1901-1933, actor.
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Hunter, Ian, 1900-1975, actor.
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Jeans, Isabel, 1891-1985, actor.
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Robertshaw, Jerrold, 1866-1941, actor.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Lowndes, Marie Belloc, 1868-1947.
Lodger.
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Gainsborough Studios, production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
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| Added Title |
Story of the London fog |
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Downhill |
| Note |
Downhill also known as: When boys leave home |
| ISBN |
9781681433189 |
| Standard No. |
715515198912 |
| Music No. |
CC2775DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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