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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Gaetano di Ventimiglia, Hal Young · Cut by Ivor Montagu · Ratio 4:3 · 70 min
How it was made
- For the scene of the Buntings listening to the lodger pace above them, Hitchcock laid a thick sheet of toughened glass over the set to make the ceiling appear transparent, filming the lodger's feet from below in a sequence built from 65 shots across just over six minutes with no title cards.
- Individual scenes ran under three minutes on screen but often took a full morning to shoot, since Hitchcock, fresh from working in Berlin, built each one around unusual camera angles and expressionist lighting.
- After viewing Hitchcock's cut, producer Michael Balcon nearly shelved the film; critic Ivor Montagu was brought in to salvage it, tightening the intertitles and reshooting a few minor scenes, while poster artist Edward McKnight Kauffer was hired to design the film's animated triangular title cards.
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