The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"While the silent The Lodger was not director Alfred Hitchcock's first film, it was the first to truly deserve the designation ""A Hitchcock Picture"". British matinee idol Ivor Novello plays Jonathan Drew, a quiet, secretive young man who rents a room in a London boarding house. Drew's arrival coincides with the reign of Terror orchestrated by Jack the Ripper. As the film progresses, circumstantial evidence begins to mount, pointing to Drew as the selfsame Ripper. In addition to Novello's ...