The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog Blu-ray

Release Year: 1927

Runtime: 91 min

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen

Studios: Carlyle Blackwell Productions, Gainsborough Pictures

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

Special Features:

2K digital restoration, with a new score by composer Neil Brand

Performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul's and presented in uncompressed stereo.

Downhill

Another 1927 feature directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ivor Novello, in a 2K digital restoration and 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

With filmmakers François Truffaut (1962) and Peter Bogdanovich (1963 and 1972).

Radio adaptation of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock

New interview with Brand on composing for silent film

PLUS: Essays on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp

Technical Specifications:

• 90 minutes
• Tinted/Black & White
• Silent
• 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio