The Lodger
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.
Plot
Slade, a serial killer, is a lodger in a 19th-century family's London home. So is a singer, Kitty Langley, who definitely has caught Slade's eye. The man of the house, Robert Bonting, is recovering from a nervous breakdown caused by business reverses. So the family is initially blind to Slade's increasingly peculiar behavior, such as turning all portraits of women to face the wall and burning odds and ends in the middle of the night.
More details
| author | Barré Lyndon |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | London |
| director | John Brahm |
| editor | J. Watson Webb Jr. |
| genre | historical horror |
| keywords | burn kill murder nervous breakdown police custody river scotland yard turn whitechapel |
| musicBy | Hugo Friedhofer |
| producer | Robert Bassler |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | film noir serial killer |