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The Lodger( 1944)

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PROBING EYES that marked the woman he loved for death!

Overview

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

    Top Billed Cast

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      Merle Oberon

      Kitty Langley

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      Laird Cregar

      Mr. Slade

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      George Sanders

      Inspector John Warwick

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      Cedric Hardwicke

      Robert Bonting

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      Sara Allgood

      Ellen Bonting

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      Aubrey Mather

      Superintendent Sutherland

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      Queenie Leonard

      Daisy the Maid

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      Doris Lloyd

      Jennie

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      David Clyde

      Det. Sgt. Bates

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      Helena Pickard

      Annie Rowley

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      Ruth Clifford

      Hairdresser (uncredited)

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      Thora Hird

      First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)

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      Anita Sharp-Bolster

      Wiggy (uncredited)

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      C. Montague Shaw

      Stage Manager (uncredited)

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      Skelton Knaggs

      Man with Cart

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      Charlie Hall

      Comedian

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      Bess Flowers

      Woman in Audience

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      Olaf Hytten

      Harris, the Haberdasher

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      Heather Wilde

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      Fred Aldrich

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      Harry Allen

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      Jimmy Aubrey

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      Wilson Benge

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      Billy Bevan

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      Ted Billings

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      Edmund Breon

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      Mae Bruce

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      Colin Campbell

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      Herbert Clifton

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      Grace Davies

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      Harold De Becker

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      Cyril Delevanti

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      Frank Elliott

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      Herbert Evans

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      Douglas Gerrard

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      Gibson Gowland

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      Kit Guard

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      Frank Hagney

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      Gerald Hamer

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      Lumsden Hare

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      Alec Harford

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      Forrester Harvey

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      Stuart Holmes

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      Kenneth Hunter

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      Boyd Irwin

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      Edna Mae Jones

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      Colin Kenny

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      Crauford Kent

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      Charles Knight

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      Connie Leon

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      George Magrill

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      Kermit Maynard

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      Mathew McCue

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      Philo McCullough

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      Clive Morgan

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      Edmund Mortimer

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      John Rice

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      John Rogers

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      Raymond Severn

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      Yorke Sherwood

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      Leslie Sketchley

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      Will Stanton

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      Jane Starr

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      Robert R. Stephenson

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      Donald Stuart

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      Walter Tetley

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      David Thursby

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      Frederick Worlock

    Social

    Review 2Discussion

    A review by John Chard

    9
    Written by John Chard on Fri Jul 19 2019
    Your beauty is exquisite. Victorian London, Whitechapple, and some maniac is slaughtering women with stage backgrounds. Could it be that the mysterious Mr. Slade who has rented the upstairs rooms from Mrs Burton, is the man known as Jack the Ripper? This part of London is cloaked in fog, the cobbled streets damp and bearing witness to unspeakable crimes, the gas lights dimly flicker as the British Bobby searches in vain for Bloody Jack. The scene is set for what is to me the finest adaptation to deal with the notorious murderer, Jack the Ripper. A remake of the Alfred Hitchcock silent fr...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    800000.00

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • suspicion of murder
    • jack the ripper
    • lodger
    • victorian england
    • beautiful woman
    • film noir
    • murder
    • serial killer
    • british noir
    • showgirl
    • landlady
    • dressing room
    • police inspector
    • dance hall singer
    • dead brother
    • whitechapel
    • rented rooms
    • suspicious behavior
    • horror noir