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Programme 01 · The Midnight Programme
The Lodger
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
A mysterious lodger takes a room while a killer stalks the fog. Hitchcock's first true thriller is all staircases, suspicion, and the sound of footsteps overhead.
Screening note
A blueprint for everything he would do later, already fully formed: the wrong man, the right room, the viewer's guilty eye.
ThrillerSilent
“Suspense begins at the top of the stairs.”
Public-domain cinema. This prototype does not host or stream the film. A production build would resolve playback through a licensed, region-aware provider.
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