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The Lodger

Name: The Lodger
Director: John Brahm
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Horror
Released: 1944
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

1944 · Directed by John Brahm · 84 min · Thriller · Mystery · Horror · 10 frames

Tagline

PROBING EYES that marked the woman he loved for death!

Crew

Screenplay: Barré Lyndon
Cinematography: Lucien Ballard
Edited by: J. Watson Webb Jr.
Music: Hugo Friedhofer
Produced by: Robert Bassler

Cast

Merle Oberon as Kitty Langley
Laird Cregar as Mr. Slade
George Sanders as Inspector John Warwick
Cedric Hardwicke as Robert Bonting
Sara Allgood as Ellen Bonting
Aubrey Mather as Superintendent Sutherland
Queenie Leonard as Daisy the Maid
Doris Lloyd as Jennie
David Clyde as Det. Sgt. Bates
Helena Pickard as Annie Rowley

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: 20th Century Fox
Budget: $800,000
Themes: suspicion of murder, jack the ripper, lodger, victorian england, beautiful woman, film noir, murder, serial killer, british noir, showgirl

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