![]() ![]() The prissy looking lodger is seated between two dolls in cloche hats - I'm afraid I'm guessing again - and one of them puts an unlit cigarette in her mouth, waiting for the smooth gentleman to light it for her, and maybe buy her that smashing dress too. Then too, there is a scene in a kind of - boutique? Is that the right word? A fancy dress shop where the heroine models. ![]() ![]() Oh, it's not "elegant," but it IS "original." Hitchcock was trying something new even then. Shades of "Psycho."Īnd when the lodger is pacing back and forth in his upstairs room, the family look up at the ceiling at the jiggling chandelier and the ceiling becomes transparent so we can see the shoes of the suspect. There's also a scene in which a sexy young girl is happily taking a bath while the lodger tries to sneak into the bathroom. Other characters refer to him as "queer" (in the old-fashioned sense of quirky) and say of him that "he's not keen on the ladies." (Ivor Novello was himself gay.) As it is, he's made Ivor Novello a bit odd looking, given him effete gestures, more makeup than the other men, suggesting that he's gay. "Frenzy," for instance, and "Shadow of a Doubt." But this isn't really typical in that the later Hitchcock would have complicated the story, or juiced it up, by having the innocent eponymous "lodger" guilty of something or other - maybe just having a closet full of ladies' garments. It as a few innovative touches anyway although it's often a little primitive.įor one thing it's a theme - a serial murderer in a comfortably bourgeois setting - that Hitchcock would return to from time to time. I wonder if this would be identifiable as a Hitchcock movie if it weren't identified as such. Reviewed by rmax304823 7 / 10 A Nation of Shopkeepers and Murderers ![]()
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