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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.

The Lodger
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Brahm
Screenplay by	Barré Lyndon
Based on	the novel The Lodger 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Produced by	Robert Bassler
Starring	Merle Oberon George Sanders Laird Cregar
Cinematography	Lucien Ballard
Edited by	J. Watson Webb Jr.
Music by	Hugo Friedhofer
Production company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	January 19, 1944 (1944-01-19) (United States)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$869,300[1][2]
Box office	$3 million[1][3]

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.

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.

Women are being brutally killed in the Whitechapel district. Scotland Yard is investigating, and a detective, John Warwick, begins to cast his suspicions in Slade's direction. Kitty, meanwhile, has also developed an attraction to Slade.

Slade goes to see her perform at a cabaret. He goes backstage afterward, and tries to make her his next victim, but Warwick's men get there just in time. Unwilling to be taken into police custody, Slade flees to the riverbank, and leaps to his death.

Cast

• Merle Oberon as Kitty Langley (singing voice was dubbed by Lorraine Elliott)
• Laird Cregar as Mr. Slade, the lodger
• George Sanders as Inspector John Warwick
• Sir 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 Sergeant Bates
• Helena Pickard as Annie Rowley
• Ted Billings as News Vendor (uncredited)
• Cyril Delevanti as Stagehand (uncredited)
• Stuart Holmes as King Edward (uncredited)
• Olaf Hytten as Harris (uncredited)

Reception

Box office

The film made a profit of $657,700.[1]

Critical

The New York Times gave the film a positive review: "If The Lodger was designed to chill the spine—as indeed it must have been, considering all the mayhem Mr. Cregar is called upon to commit as the mysterious, psychopathic pathologist of the title—then something is wrong with the picture. But, if it was intended as a sly travesty on the melodramatic technique of ponderously piling suspicion upon suspicion (and wrapping the whole in a cloak of brooding photographic effects), then The Lodger is eminently successful."[4] Variety wrote: "With a pat cast, keen direction, and tight scripting, 20th-Fox has an absorbing and, at times, spine-tingling drama".[5] TV Guide rated it 4/5 stars, and wrote: "Cregar is absolutely chilling in this Jack the Ripper tale, perhaps the best film made about Bloody Jack."[6]

See also

• List of American films of 1944

References

External links

• The Lodger at IMDb
• The Lodger at AllMovie
• The Lodger at the TCM Movie Database
• The Lodger at the American Film Institute Catalog
• The Lodger film trailer on YouTube

На других языках

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- [en] The Lodger (1944 film)

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[ru] Жилец (фильм, 1944)

«Жилец» (англ. The Lodger) — кинофильм режиссёра Джона Брама, вышедший на экраны в 1944 году.

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