The Lodger

Based On the book by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

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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Release date:

1944

Director:

John Brahm

Cast:

George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Aubrey Mather, Cedric Hardwicke

Genre:

Horror, Film noir

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1944 in adaptations