The Lodger (1944)

Directed by

John Brahm

Genre

film noir, horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

16

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 98 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman suspects that a mysterious new lodger in her home may be Jack the Ripper. As a series of murders terrorize London, she grows increasingly uneasy about his strange behavior.

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What happens

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. Lowndes' story had previously been filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927 as a silent film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, and by Maurice Elvey with sound in 1932 as The Lodger. It was remade again in 1953 by Hugo Fregonese as Man in the Attic, starring Jack Palance, and again in 2009 by David Ondaatje. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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