Alfred Hitchcock Directs "The Lodger"

"This is Hollywood and CBS presenting broadcast #4, Herbert Marshall directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the first program of the proposed new series entitled Suspense."




Listen for Hitch to talk at the end of the radio play, you can detect the young director already developing his promotional skills. Listen also for Edmund Gwenn, Santa Clause from Miracle on 34th Street, and who worked again with Hitchcock in The Trouble with Harry.

Hitchcock considered The Lodger his first real film, and I recall as a student learning that no complete print of the film existed, but it seems that this is in fact the first of Hitchcock's films that is complete http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017075/ . He did make two earlier films, and it is perhaps those I was thinking of.

(If you don't know what it's about, it plays off the Jack the Ripper story.)