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THE LODGER

2:30 ♪

Sunday, March 8

LIVE PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT BY STEVE STERNER

Director Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp
Screenplay Eliot Stannard
Based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Cinematography Gaetano di Ventimiglia
1927 | UK | DCP | Approx. 90 min. | Silent with English intertitles

As the corpses of blondes pile up around London, a cloaked stranger arrives in the fog pointing at the sign “Rooms to Let.” Could he be … Jack the Ripper? Described as the “first true Hitchcock film” by the Master himself – complete with his first cameo – with Alma Reville as assistant director.

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