Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Tale of the London Fog was not the director’s first film, but it's now widely regarded as his first serious thriller—the one which marked him out as a director of singular talent and vision.
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Patrick Vickers is an editor of the kind of stuff nobody would willingly read. Occasionally, he is a writer. He blogs on video games, books, and his life with his partner in West London.
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