Watch The Lodger: Alfred Hitchcock’s First Truly ‘Hitchcockian’ Movie (1927)
Open Culture Based on a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger opens with a blonde woman screaming in terror. She is the victim of a shadowy Jack the Ripper-like serial killer who leaves a calling card announcing himself as ‘The Avenger.’ Cut to Daisy, a blonde model whose parents are jubilant over finally finding…