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52 Weeks of Alfred Hitchcock: 6. The Lodger (Patreon)

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Sorry it's late. I just forgot to post it last night.

This week, Robin looks at, not the first Hitchcock film, but the first 'Hitchcock Film', establishing so many of the familiar elements that we see throughout the career of the Master of Suspense.

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52 Weeks of Hitchcock: 6. The Lodger

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is not the first Hitchcock film, but it feels like the first 'Hitchcock Film'. Robin looks at how this film established so many of the tropes that we now see as uniquely Hitchcockian.