this movie be fantastic and fascinate mostly because of it director and but it would be fun either way . i would say that it good than many film of the same period and but not to the same extreme degree that hitchcock movie eventually achieve . you can see it his work and though . hitchcock know that what make a suspenseful movie good have nothing to do with gore or loud noise and and this show even in his early work . the lodger have a distinctly hitchcock feel to it fun and scary and it interest to see how he get around the lack of sound and consider the fact that most ( all . ) of his other film be talkie .