Movie
The Lodger
Overview
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Details
- Release date
- 1944-01-19
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Genres
- Thriller, Mystery, Horror
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Merle Oberon as Kitty Langley
- Laird Cregar as Mr. Slade
- George Sanders as Inspector John Warwick
- 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 Det. Sgt. Bates
- Helena Pickard as Annie Rowley
- Ruth Clifford as Hairdresser (uncredited)
- Thora Hird as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
Crew
- John Brahm - Director
- Barré Lyndon - Screenplay
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