Plot Summary

In London announced a new serial killer striker at night on young blondes and leaving the scene pieces of paper signed "the Avenger." At that time, the whole city agitated by these events, in one of the houses, a man appears with signs of breakdown and rented a room there. The owners of the house, their daughter Daisy and her boyfriend Joe, a policeman investigating a series of murders, drew attention to the strange behavior of a new tenant

Did You Know?

Cameo Alfred Hitchcock — the man sitting with his back to the camera over a Desk in the editorial in the fifth minute of the film.

After a private viewing guide distributor Charles M. Wolff, refers to Hitchcock's experiments with disbelief, said to the Director: "Your picture is horrible, we'll put it on the shelf and forget". However, in the end, the film was released, thanks to the Director of the film Studio "Gainsborough pictures" Michael Balcon and Ivor Montagu.

Silent version of the film was restored by the National Archive of the British Film Institute with the support of the British Council.

In the opening scene of the film, Hitchcock planned to show the victim that night was fished from the Thames on the background of the bridge Charing Cross. However, Scotland Yard has banned him shooting on the bridge. Hitchcock repeated his request several times, until Scotland Yard have not hinted to him that if the scene will be removed for one night, the police will "look the other way". Hitchcock quickly sent actors and operators in place. However, when the film was shown, it was found that the frames on the bridge disappeared. After a long search, Hitchcock found that the operator forgot to put the lens on the camera in front of night shooting.

Russian viewers will first see a restored version of the film in August 2014 at the festival "Hitchcock: Nine unknown", organized by the British Council.

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