Of Alfred Hitchcock and Silent Movies
I am admittedly not an Alfred Hitchcock fan. I blame it on the movies The Birds and Psycho . I know that they are both classics, but really, what kind of mind thinks up something as odd and demented as a town being violently attacked by a bunch of black birds? Or, a guy who takes orders from his dead mother? Seriously. I am also not a big fan of silent movies. Well, actually, I have never sat through and watched a silent movie. I've only seen snippets here and there. Those snippets did not entice me at all. I find that the facial expressions of the characters are cheesy, and while I am not a grand conversationalist myself, I still prefer to hear my entertainment, instead of reading expressions. Regardless of all of the above , the film that I am about to review is not only an Alfred Hitchcock movie, but a silent one at that. The film's name is The Lodger . It was released in 1927 and was one of Hitchcock's first movies. The story takes place in London an