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The Lodger(Movie, 1944)

NR
| 1h 24min | Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The LodgerRating: 3.2/5 (with 3737 votes)
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. ()
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About The Lodger

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

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: London
Based on: "The Lodger" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 10 languages: Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Dutch (NL), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 01/19/1944
Director: John Brahm
Producer: Robert Bassler
Screenwriter: Barré Lyndon
Film Editor: J. Watson Webb, Jr.
Director of Photography: Lucien Ballard
Composer: Hugo Friedhofer
Production Designer: James Basevi
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Der Mädchenmörder"
"Der Schlitzer von London"
"Jack the Ripper - Scotland Yard greift ein"
"Jack, el destripador"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: The Lodger (GB, 1932), The Lodger (PL, 1967), The Lodger (US, 2009), The Lodger (FR, 2021)

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