((re)watched: fri/20230113 via Criterion Channel. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a screenplay by Eliot Stannard based on the novel, THE LODGER, by Marie Belloc Lowndes; starring Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, and Malcom Keen. Released 14 February 1927)

Still from Hitchcock's "The Lodger," in which the eponymous Lodger, Igor Novello, makes his entrance.

Having been among my favorite favorite Hitchcock films – SHADOW OF A DOUBT, THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, and REAR WINDOW (in no particular order) – since my first viewing years ago, I’m happy to report that, in spite of stumbling a bit in its final third, it retains its hallowed status upon this Friday the 13th rewatch. Also served as a reminder to procure Henry K. Miller's THE FIRST TRUE HITCHCOCK, about the making of THE LODGER. Will probably rewatch after devouring Miller's work, whenever it rises to the top of the endless to-read stack.