The Lodger Articles
Early Alfred Hitchcock Movies in Need of Restoration
Two early Alfred Hitchcock efforts: Ivor Novello in The Lodger (top); Anny Ondra in Blackmail (bottom) "Rescue the Hitchcock 9" is the name of a campaign by the British Film Institute to save nine Alfred Hitchcock silent films, among them Blackmail (1929), shot as both a silent and a talkie. "Be part of the challenge to bring these rare films back from the brink and [...]
Ivor Novello Remembered
"No Cardiff-born screen actor has ever been remotely as popular at the British box office as Ivor Novello," says author Dave Berry (Wales and Cinema: The First 100 Years) in the article "Novello Could Have Been a Hollywood Star." A leading star on the London stage, Ivor Novello was brought to Hollywood by D.W. Griffith for the leading romantic role in the 1923 drama The [...]
Best Films – 1944
John Hodiak, Tallulah Bankhead in Lifeboat FILM I Bambini ci guardano / The Children Are Watching Us d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Adolfo Franci, Margherita Maglione, Gherardo Gherardi Crime by Night d: William Clemens; scr: Joel Malone, Richard Weil Dragon Seed d: Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway; scr: Jane Murfin, Marguerite Roberts Laura d: Otto Preminger; scr: [...]