{"id":30607,"date":"2022-10-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30607"},"modified":"2022-10-08T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T12:56:40","slug":"the-lodger-1927-directed-by-alfred-hitchcock-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30607","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Lodger&#8221; (1927) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z100822zview_thelodger.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"723\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Lodger<\/em><\/strong> (1927)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Directors:\u00a0 <strong>Alfred Hitchcock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Eliot Stannard <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LCxZep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lodger<\/a> by <strong>Marie Belloc Lowndes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Ivor Novello <\/strong>and <strong>Alfred Hitchcock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 None<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A serial killer who calls himself The Avenger has killed seven blonde haired women.\u00a0 He strikes late at night and police have few clues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a tall handsome stranger rents a room from Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, they think nothing of it&#8230; until he begins to display some strange habits.\u00a0 He asks that the pictures of blonde women in his room be removed.\u00a0 He quietly leaves his room at night and returns before morning.\u00a0 And what is in the satchel that he keeps locked in a cabinet?\u00a0 Could their lodger be The Avenger?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alfred Hitchcock wanted <em>The Lodger<\/em> to be his first full sound film, but it ended up being his last silent feature.\u00a0 <em>The Lodger<\/em> is also the first film to contain one of Hitchcock&#8217;s famous cameos!\u00a0 <em>The Lodger<\/em> features some animated title cards and inventive shots (the Lodger pacing the floor seen from below as if the floor became invisible; the Lodger descending a spiral staircase and the only thing we see of him is his hand on the banister as he goes down, etc.).\u00a0 Hitchcock considers <em>The Lodger<\/em> his first suspense film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Lodger <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z100822zview_thelodger2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lodger (1927) Directors:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay: \u00a0Eliot Stannard based on The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes Stars:\u00a0 Ivor Novello<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30704,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30607\/revisions\/30704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}