| The Lodger | |
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| 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 | |
| Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
| Edited by | J. Watson Webb Jr. |
| Music by | Hugo Friedhofer |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $869,300[1][2] |
| Box office | $3 million[1][3] |
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.
- ^ a b Mank, Gregory William (2018). Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy. McFarland.
- ^ FRED STANLEY (Oct 17, 1943). "ALL IS CONFUSION: Hollywood Views Juvenile Delinquency Films Through Haze of Censorship". New York Times. p. X3.
- ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 220