Deschutes Public Library

The lodger, a story of the London fog, Michael Balcon and Carlyle Blackwell, by arrangement with C.M. Woolf, present ; scenario, Eliot Stannard ; produced by Gainsborough Pictures ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Special features: Downhill, director Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 feature film starring Ivor Novello, in a 2k digital restoration with a new piano score by Brand; new interview with film scholar William Rothman on Hitchcock's visual signatures; The Bunting House: new video essay by art historian Steven Jacobs about Hitchcock's use of architecture; excerpts from audio interviews with Hitchcock by filmmakers François Truffaut (1962) and Peter Bogdanovich (1963); radio adaptation of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock; new interview with Brand on composing for silent film; essays (in insert) on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip KempIncludes the 1927 silent Hitchcock film, Downhill, also known as When boys leave home: Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend's theft and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures"A restoration by the BFI National Archive in association with ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Network Releasing and Park Circus Films"--Opening screensTitle from title frameThe lodger based on the novel by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes; Downhill based on the play by Ivor Novello and Constance CollierOriginally produced as a motion picture in 1927DVD

black and white

stereophonic

The lodger: director of photography, Baron Ventimiglia ; art directors, C. Wilfrid Arnold and Bertram Evans ; editor and titling, Ivor Montagu ; new orchestral score, Neil Brand ; music performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul'sDownhill: director of photography, Claude McDonnell; editor, Lionel Rich

other

Two-DVD special fullscreen edition.

9781681433189

videodisc

Cast of The lodger: Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm KeenCast of Downhill: Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel, Ian Hunter, Isabel Jeans, Jerrold Robertshaw, Sybil Rhoda, Annette Benson, Lilian Braithwaite

2 videodiscs (91 min.), silent, black and white, 4 3/4 in.

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)987271975

715515198912

CC2775DDVD -- The Criterion Collection

DVD