will daisy ( play by the actress june ) and a beautiful flaxen haired fashion model and wind up push up daisy if she continue to flirt with her parent new lodger ( ivor novello ) . after all and he look like eyewitness have describe the avenger and a jack the ripper style serial killer of young woman with golden tress . he certainly act queer . police detective joe ( malcolm keen ) and daisy nominal boyfriend and think he a wrong un and but joe be quite obviously jealous . joe get assign to the avenger case just a daisy and the lodger be get amorous for real . the avenger claim his next victim on a night the lodger have mysteriously steal out of daisy parent house and make daisy mother more than suspicious her daughter be in danger . a few night later and daisy and the lodger be spoon on a bench by a lamppost when joe come along and assail the lodger impudence at move in on his girl . daisy haughtily break her almost engagement with joe and go off with the lodger . only then do the abandon joe put two and two together and conclude daisy new beau and whom he blame for everything wrong in his world and be the avenger . be he . a viewer of alfred hitchcock first true thriller and a silent film from 1926 and we be halfway convinced and but privilege shot of the lodger face that we be grant in various situation have make u feel sympathetic to him and see him a some sort of victim and not a psychotic killer . certainly and daisy have no doubt about him and for she resist when joe arrest him . take advantage of the confusion when daisy mother faint at the news and the lodger and handcuffed and bolt and escape . daisy meet him at their lamppost . he tell her a story of how his own sister be the avenger first victim . he be out to capture his sister ( and indirectly his mother and who never recover from the shock ) killer . that the quest that take him out of daisy house on that most recent fateful night . she believe him . should we . at the level of subtext and this be a film about joe patriarchal right to daisy hand and with her father approval . after he put the cuff on the avenger and he say and he will be in a position and career wise and to put a ring on her finger . do he have a right to . do daisy desire or lack thereof matter . will her attraction for the lodger be validate a safe and fruitful and or cost her her life and plunge her world into chaos . hitchcock have construct a morality play around patriarchy and and not incidentally and christian symbolism . notice the image hitch place on the screen after an angry mob hunt down the handcuffed lodger .