The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog (1927)

A mysterious lodger (Ivor Novello) in a rooming house becomes the prime suspect in the Jack The Ripper like serial killings of young blonde women. Based on the 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This is perhaps the first true "Hitchcockian" film as we've come to know the term. The movie is full of Hitchcock touches, many that he would use over again. It's a silent film which allows Hitchcock to devote himself to such visual flourishes as the justifiably famous glass floor and the lovers' first kiss.  The film has been remade several times, most notably in 1944. The screenplay seems to go out of the way to make the policeman suitor (Malcolm Keen) unpleasant in order to make Novello more sympathetic. The version I saw had an excellent underscore by Ashley Irwin. With June Tripp as the model who becomes the bone of contention between the lodger and the policeman and Marie Ault and Arthur Chesney as her parents.