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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
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Hitchcock, Gainsborough, 1927 (shown to the trade the year before). A lodger (Ivor Novello) takes a room while a killer who prefers fair hair works the fog. Daisy, downstairs, is blonde. Hitchcock had a glass floor built so he could shoot Novello's pacing from below and superimpose it on the ceiling, a way to make footsteps without sound. Bioscope called it possibly the finest British production ever made. The film is already about suspicion more than proof.
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The one that starts it. A glass floor so the pacing overhead can be seen from below, a blonde downstairs, a killer in the fog. Suspicion before proof. Watch the hand on the banister coming down the stairs. He never stopped shooting that hand.
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