The lodger : a story of the London fog
(DVD)

Silent film with added orchestral music.

From the novel by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.

1.33:1 aspect ratio.

"A restoration by the BFI National Archive in association with ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Network Releasing and Park Circus Films."--Opening screens.

Includes the 1927 silent Hitchcock film, Downhill, also known as When boys leave home: Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend's theft and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures.

Special features: Downhill, director Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 feature film starring Ivor Novello, in a 2k digital restoration with a new piano score by Brand; new interview with film scholar William Rothman on Hitchcock's visual signatures; new video essay by art historian Steven Jacobs about Hitchcock's use of architecture; excerpts from audio interviews with Hitchcock by filmmakers François Truffaut (1962) and Peter Bogdanovich (1963); radio adaptation of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock; new interview with Brand on composing for silent film; essays on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp.

Composer, Neil Brand; music performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul's ; editor and titling, Ivor Montagu ; photography, Baron Ventimiglia ; assistant director, Alma Reville.

Ivor Novello, June Tripp, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, Malcom Keen.

This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse, just as a killer who preys on blonde women, known as the Avenger, descends upon the city. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, NTSC, region 1.