The Lodger

1932
Approved
1 Std. 25 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

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5,5/10

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Ivor Novello

Angeloff

Elizabeth Allan

Daisy Bunting

A.W. Baskcomb

Mr. Bunting

Barbara Everest

Mrs. Bunting
(as Barbara Everst)

Jack Hawkins

John Martin

Shayle Gardner

Detective Snell

Peter Gawthorne

Lord Southcliff

Kynaston Reeves

Bob Mitchell
(as P. Kynaston Reeves)

Drusilla Wills

Mrs. Coles

Anthony Holles

Silvono

George Merritt

Commissioner

Molly Fisher

Gladys Sims
(as Mollie Fisher)

Andreas Malandrinos

Rabinovitch
(as Andrea Malandrinas)

Iris Ashley

Police Commissioner's Daughter

Harold Meade

Minor Role
(Nicht genannt)

Ian Wilson

Newspaper Seller
(Nicht genannt)

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Ivor Novello reprises his lead role from Alfred Hitchcock's silent classic Der Schrecken von London (1927). Hitchcock was asked to direct the sound remake of his 1927 film, but declined.

Patzer
Near the end, in the public house scene, Michel (Ivor Novello) overturns his drink of beer and we see the glass fragments spilled onto his table. In the next shot of the table the main piece of broken glass is miraculously upright. Subsequently, the shattered glass reverts back to its original state when a waiter picks up the largest intact piece of glass and places it upright on the table.

Verbindungen
Edited into Terror! Theatre: The Phantom Fiend (1957)

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6/10

Novello's second stab at 'The Lodger'

This film, known in the US as 'The Phantom Fiend' and seemingly only surviving in appalling prints with muddy soundtrack, was the first sound remake of Hitchcock's wonderfully atmospheric silent classic, 'The Lodger'.

As in the earlier film, British composer and matinée idol Ivor Novello plays the mysterious lodger of the title, this time affecting a bizarre European accent and managing to be even more creepy than in the silent version. His acting though was far too mannered for the sound screen, even if we do get to hear his piano playing in this film!

In support, Elizabeth Allen and a very young Jack Hawkins are not at all bad, although the story is extremely familiar and you could take a fair attempt at guessing the ending. Maurice Elvey's direction is rather pedestrian but the principals are photographed well and the tension is kept up well over the short running time.

Not a substitute for the silent version (or the superior sound version with Laird Cregar) but an interesting curio.