Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and widely studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
I realized that it is very often that we consider someone a master of his trait, only because his reputation precedes him. Many a times our appreciation is only a rat race that stems from the repetitive praise that we have heard for a particular artist. It is therefore an effort, through this series of reviews to analyze the undoubted brilliance of Sir Alfred Hitchcock by not only confining ourselves to the popular "Psycho" or "the birds", but through a rigorous examination of his entire directorial endeavor.
Lets start with The Lodger: A story of a London Fog (1927)