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The Lodger

1926, Movie, NR, 91 mins

The Lodger: Review

Alfred Hitchcock's THE LODGER is a gripping silent film about a mysterious boarder who may or may not be Jack the Ripper. Although it was Hitchcock's third film, he considered it to be the "first true Hitchcock" movie (it was also the first of his films in which he appeared), as it contains many of the visual and thematic elements that would reappear in his work for the next 50 years. A string of murders is occurring in London in which women with blonde hair are killed ever... read more

The Lodger: Cast & Details

Year: 1926
Rated NR

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Cast
Ivor Novello: Jonathan Drew--The Lodger
June: Daisy Bunting
Marie Ault: Mrs. Bunting
Arthur Chesney: Mr. Bunting
Malcolm Keene: Joe Betts

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The Lodger: TV Guide News

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Laurence Fishburne is adapting the best-selling novel The Alchemist into a feature film fancied as "Harry Potter meets Indiana Jones." Fishburne will also direct.... Rapper 50 Cent is in final talks to join Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in the crime thriller Righteous Kill, playing a drug dealer who helps track a serial killer.... Djimon Hounsou is a mixed-martial-arts coach in Get Some, an indie drama also starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard (Hidden Palms) and Cam Gigandet (The O.C.).... Alfred Hitchcock's first film, The Lodger, is being remade as a modern-day urban thriller set in Los Angeles.... Oliver Platt will play television exec Bob Zelnick in Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon film. read more be the first to leave a comment
First Serial Killer Flick? And More! | Movie News | 6/21/2007
Questions about serial murderers in movies, a shower of blood, The Godfather II's Troy Donahue/Merle Johnson mystery and more.Send your movie questions to FlickChick.See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this week's new flicks in Movie Talk!Hear Maitland on the weekly TVGuide Talk podcast.Question: I love movies about serial killers and that got me to wondering: What was the very first serial killer picture? -- AlexFlickChick: I love "first" questions, because they always get the discussion going. I'd argue that Alfred Hitchcock's silent The Lodger (1926) gets the credit for being the earliest movie about a serial murderer. That said, it focuses less on the killer and his victims than on the increasingly concerned landlady who comes to suspect her upstairs lodger might be this "Jack the Ripper" fellow she keeps reading about in the newspaper. Fritz Lang's M (1931) seems to me the first film whose structure resembles that of contemporary serial killer pictures: It focuses on... read more be the first to leave a comment

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