{"id":17040,"date":"2024-12-23T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17040"},"modified":"2024-12-23T18:04:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T23:04:34","slug":"the-lodger-1927-alfred-hitchcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17040","title":{"rendered":"The Lodger (1927, Alfred Hitchcock)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a serial killer murdering the blondes of London, but the movie is more concerned with showing us all the media technologies of the time (telegraph, newspaper, radio, electric billboards).  Meanwhile after a performance of &#8220;Golden Curls,&#8221; the few performers who weren&#8217;t wearing wigs are worried about their walk home.  Good music by Neil Brand, and I love the construction paper graphics on the intertitles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/lodger1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Ivor Novello arrives, pale and scarved, at a boarding house, acting like a dramatic ghost while renting a room, and is assumed to be the killer so everything he picks up is implied to be a possible murder weapon.  He likes local girl Daisy, which annoys her hanger-on Joe.  First the landlady then the cops go snooping through Ivor&#8217;s stuff, then the real killer is caught off-camera but not before jealous Joe gets an angry mob to beat Ivor half to death.<\/p>\n<p><em>Killer calling card:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/lodger2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>British people must spend 15% of their day standing in shocked silence after something mildly disagreeable happened.  Novello&#8217;s legacy: he would be portrayed ninety-some years later by the guy who also played young Pierce Brosnan in <em>Mamma Mia 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>POV: Ivor Novello wants to kiss you<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/lodger3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a serial killer murdering the blondes of London, but the movie is more concerned with showing us all the media technologies of the time (telegraph, newspaper, radio, electric billboards). Meanwhile after a performance of &#8220;Golden Curls,&#8221; the few performers who weren&#8217;t wearing wigs are worried about their walk home. Good music by Neil Brand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[526,255,102,3355,1319,64],"class_list":["post-17040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-alfred-hitchcock","tag-britain","tag-ivor-novello","tag-serial-killer","tag-silent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17087,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17040\/revisions\/17087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}