“Even if he is a queer, he’s a gentleman.”

Hooptober9 movie 22 with a 1920s silent film because it’s Silent Sunday Night on TCM and it’s also an Alfred Hitchcock movie!!

What to do if your Lodger looks like the guy that’s killed 7 women already:

1. Ask him to take off his scarf so you can get a good look at him.

2. Become really upset when he asks to remove the paintings of their daughter from his room.

3.  Wait for him to become “agreeable” and then play a seductive game of Chess ♟

4. Tell him to lock his money up because “it’s tempting providence.”

5. Allow your fiancé to put handcuffs on you so that you can tease the Lodger.

6. Make continuous cracks that he’s gay.
“Anyway, I’m glad he’s not keen on the girls.”

7. When your Lodger leaves in a mysterious way at night, do not tell the police, but take that opportunity to try to look through the guy’s things in his room.
(btw the fiancé is a police detective & hired to investigate the killer. Do the parents tell him anything? Nope.).

8. Say that their daughter should not be left alone with him, but allow him to talk to her (through the door) while she takes a bath.
(btw this is pre-Psycho and almost as good as the shower scene).
Also telling your daughter not to date someone just insures that she will date him.

A good Hitchcock movie. Also the close up scenes were intense. I love the suspenseful music! Hitchcock’s screen title cards are my favorite now. And I would’ve liked the Lodger to have been the killer like Hitchcock and the book intended. I would rewatch if it was ever on the TCM channel again. Also this is another book I’ll be adding to my tbr.

(And with all the Hitchcock movies I’ve seen, here’s my list for them ranked.)