房客

影片根據Marie Belloc Lowndes的同名小說改編，這部小說以1888年倫敦“開膛手傑克” （Jack the Ripper）的真實歷史案件為基礎。

一位新房客（艾佛·諾維洛飾）被房東太太（瑪麗·奧爾特飾）和她丈夫（阿瑟·切斯尼飾）懷疑有可能是惡名昭著的“連環殺手”，但他們當時裝模特的女兒黛西·邦廷（瓊·特里普飾）卻被他深深吸引。黛西的男友警探喬·貝茨（馬爾科姆·基恩飾）產生了嫉妒，於是在房東太太的教唆下獲得了搜查令闖入了他的房間。然後警察找到了一把手槍和一張標明以往殺人地點的地圖，以及一張第一個受害人的照片。房客辯稱那個女孩是她的妹妹，他只是在尋找殺人兇手，可是警察還是逮捕了他。在黛西的幫助下，他逃了出來，但因為戴著手銬在酒吧被人發現，於是，他被逼入了牆角。

本片有一個難忘的鏡頭被希區柯克稱為是在默片時代替聲音的拍法，就是鏡頭裡出現“房客戴著手套的右手在樓梯扶手上慢慢下滑。

導演 Director：阿爾弗雷德·希區柯克Alfred Hitchcock

編劇 Writer：

Eliot Stannard ....(scenario)

Marie Belloc Lowndes ....(novel) (as Mrs. Belloc Lowndes)/play "Who Is He?" (uncredited)

Marie Belloc Lowndes ....play Who Is He?

製作人 Produced by：

卡萊爾·布萊克韋爾 Carlyle Blackwell ....producer (uncredited)

Michael Balcon ....producer (uncredited)

原創音樂 Original Music：Ashley Irwin ....（1999）

攝影 Cinematography：Gaetano di Ventimiglia ....(photography) (as Baron Ventimiglia)

剪輯 Film Editing：Ivor Montagu

美術設計 Art Direction by：

C. Wilfred Arnold ....(as C. Wilfrid Arnold)

Bertram Evans

副導演/助理導演 Assistant Director：艾瑪·雷維爾 Alma Reville ....assistant director

製作公司：Gainsborough Pictures [英國]

發行公司：

⒈ AmerAnglo Corp. [美國] （1928） (USA) (theatrical) (states rights system)

⒉ Grapevine Video [美國] (USA) (VHS)

⒊ Laserlight Entertainment [美國] （1999） (USA) (DVD)/（2003） (USA) (DVD)

⒋ Navarre Entertainment [美國] （2002） (USA) (DVD)

⒌ Nostalgia Video [美國] (USA) (VHS)

⒍ Video Yesteryear [美國] （1996） (USA) (VHS)

⒎ Woolf & Freedman Film Service [英國] （1927） (UK) (theatrical)

⒏ Divisa Ediciones [西班牙] （1995） (Spain) (VHS)

⒐ Delta Expedition [美國] （2001） (USA) (DVD)

⒑ Whirlwind Media Inc. [美國] （2001） (USA) (DVD)

⒒ Rhino Home Video [美國] （2002） (USA) (DVD)

⒓ BCI Eclipse LLC [美國] （2003） (USA) (DVD)

⒔ Brentwood Home Video [美國] （2003） (USA) (DVD)

上映日期

《房客》的上映/發行日期

國家/地區 上映/發行日期（細節）

英國 UK 1927年2月14日

美國 USA 1928年6月10日......(New York City,New York)

德國 Germany 1992年4月......(video premiere)

助理導演艾瑪·雷維爾在拍攝完這部《房客》之後，成為希區柯克的妻子。

英文版本：

Alfred Hitchcock wanted an ambiguous ending to the film,but the studio wouldn't allow it to be implied that the lodger might actually be the murderer.

The movie is based on the book of the same name. It was the first book to offer a solution to the Jack The Ripper killings. The book is supposedly based on an anecdote told to the painter Walter Sickert by the landlady when renting a room; she said that the previous tenant had been Jack the Ripper.

Director Cameo: [Alfred Hitchcock] a desk in the newsroom early in the film. Some people claim he also appears later in the crowd lynch scene.

Hitchcock told François Truffaut that,though he had made two films prior to this,he considered this his first true film.

Debut of Reginald Gardiner.

This is the earliest film directed by Alfred Hitchcock that survives today in its entirety.

瑕疵 Goofs

Continuity:After "the lodger" escapes handcuffed,Daisy met him sitting on a bank in the street. Then she sits down side by side with him. After that he puts his head on her right shoulder,with his face touching her face. Between shots she appears alone with nobody on her shoulder.

Continuity:In one of the heralded shots of the film,Daisy and her parents look at the ceiling to see the chandelier shaking. We then see "through" the ceiling to a shot of the Lodger's feet pacing back and forth. This was a unique way to imply the sound of footsteps in a silent film. However,looking at the layout of the house,the room the family is in is NOT beneath the room in which the Lodger is pacing.

對白 Quotes

Joe Betts:When I've put a rope round the Avenger's neck,I'll put a ring around Daisy's finger.

[first lines] Female eyewitness:Tall he was - and his face all wrapped up.

[last lines] The Landlady:Your toothbrush - you left it behind.

Joe Betts:Does this lodger of yours mean any harm to Daisy? The Landlady:Don't be silly,Joe. He's not that sort. Joe Betts:Even if he's a bit queer,he's a gentleman.