Saturday's Times in its section "Knowledge" had a list of all Hitchcock's films: 53 of them. I have seen 35 of them.
The only silent one of his I have seen is "The Lodger", an interesting study of a man who may be Jack the Ripper. Even then Hitch could maintain exciting suspense.
But the actor playing the lodger was Ivor Novello who was then, in 1926, what was called a "matinee idol". So there was no chance of him portraying a guilty man - it would, he thought, have ruined his reputation as "the most elligible bachelor in England". So, Hitchcock did not for once have his way, the end was changed and the lodger was proved to be innocent.
He looked guilty to me.
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