The Lodger | |
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Directed by | Maurice Elvey |
Written by | Miles Mander Paul Rotha H. Fowler Mear Ivor Novello (uncredited) |
Based on | The Lodger 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes |
Produced by | Julius Hagen |
Starring | Ivor Novello Elizabeth Allan |
Cinematography | Basil Emmott William Luff Sydney Blythe (uncredited) |
Edited by | Jack Harris |
Music by | W.L. Trytel (uncredited) |
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Distributed by | Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK) |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Lodger is a 1930 British thriller film directed by Maurice Elvey, and starring Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, and Jack Hawkins.[1] It is based on the 1913 novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, also filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927 (also starring Novello); by John Brahm in 1944; by Hugo Fregonese, as Man in the Attic, in 1953; and by David Ondaatje in 2009.[2]
The film is also known as The Phantom Fiend in the United States, where it was released in truncated form in 1935.[3][4]