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The Lodger is a 1944 American horror film about Jack the Ripper, based on the 1913 novel of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes. It stars Merle Oberon, George Sanders, and Laird Cregar, features Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and was directed by John Brahm from a screenplay by Barré Lyndon.
The Lodger: Directed by John Brahm. With Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Cedric Hardwicke. A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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- Crime, Horror, Mystery
- John Brahm
- 1944-01-19
Dec 9, 2018 · The Lodger. Publication date. 1944. Topics. Crime, Horror, Mystery. A landlady suspects her new lodger is Jack the Ripper. Addeddate. 2018-12-09 01:01:00. Identifier.
- 84 min
In 1889, former businessman Robert Burton and his wife Ellen are forced by financial necessity to take a lodger into their home near Slade Walk in London. In response to their advertisement, a mysterious man calling himself Slade rents the room from Ellen, and, telling her that he is a pathologist, also rents the attic for his experiments.
- John Brahm, Sam Schneider
- Merle Oberon
The 1944 film The Lodger, starring Merle Oberon, Laird Cregar and George Sanders, is a fine example of movie making splendour, ponderously piling suspicion upon suspicion in a brave attempt to create suspense.
Jun 27, 2017 · The chief difference between novel and film is that, in the former, the lodger does indeed turn out to be the killer. But since Ivor Novello had been signed to play the lead, the ending quite clearly had to be changed—no way could the elegant young matinee idol portray a sadistic, deranged killer.
A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper. In late-Victorian London, Jack the Ripper has been killing and maiming actresses in the night. The Bontings are forced to take in a lodger due to financial hardship.
