First True Hitchcock

Hitchcock's previously untold origin story.Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger the first true Hitchcock movie,the one that anticipated all the others. And yet the story of how The Lodger came to be made is shrouded in myth, often repeated and much embellished, even by Hitchcock himself. The First True Hitchcock focuses on the twelve-month period that encompassed The Lodgers production in 1926 and release in 1927, presenting a new picture of this pivotal year in Hitchcocks life and in the wider film world. Using fresh archival discoveries, Henry K. Miller situates Hitchcocks formation as a director against the backdrop of a continent shattered by war and confronted with the looming presence of a new superpower, the United States, and its most visible exportfilm. The previously untold story of The Lodgers making in the London fogand attempted remaking in the Los Angeles sunis the story of how Hitchcock became Hitchcock.