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A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
- Awards
- 1 win total
Cedric Hardwicke
- Robert Bonting
- (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
Fred Aldrich
- Plainclothesman
- (uncredited)
Harry Allen
- Conductor
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Aubrey
- Cab Driver
- (uncredited)
Joan Bayley
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Wilson Benge
- Vigilante
- (uncredited)
Billy Bevan
- Bartender
- (uncredited)
Ted Billings
- News Vendor
- (uncredited)
Edmund Breon
- Manager
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMerle Oberon fell in love with the film's cinematographer, Lucien Ballard, and they married the following year. Because of facial scars Oberon sustained in a car accident, Ballard developed a unique light for her that washed out any signs of her blemishes. The device is known to this day as the Obie (not to be confused with the Off-Broadway award).
- GoofsThe police inspector says that a fingerprint was taken from one of the Ripper murder scenes, and the inspector himself carries a vial of fingerprinting powder. However, the Ripper murders took place in 1888; the first criminal identification from fingerprints took place in Argentina in 1892, and the British police did not adopt fingerprinting until 1901.
- Quotes
Slade: You wouldn't think that anyone could hate a thing and love it too.
Kitty Langley: You can't love and hate at the same time.
Slade: You can! And it's a problem then...
- ConnectionsFeatured in Creature Features: The Lodger/The Black Pit of Dr. M (1971)
- SoundtracksWhat-cher, 'Ria!
(ca 1885) (uncredited)
Music by Bessie Bellwood
Lyrics by Will Herbert
Sung a cappella by a mob outside a pub
Featured review
From the first few frames, as the title credits wash in and out like the tide, this is a superb film, full of fog, shadows, suspense, and great performances from Cregar (brilliant in this), Oberon, Hardwicke and others. It manages to be chilling and moving at the same time, and the ending seems incredibly sad and poetic after what has gone before. This makes it all the more memorable. Sadly not on video at the moment unless you dig around, but deserves to be better known than perhaps it is. In comparison with the silent version by Hitchcock, this is more deranged and evil than Novello's cuckoo clocks and wild eyes, and also has a more logical conclusion that the viewer was sure of from early on. The strongest scene is the one in Oberon's dressing room quite near the end, which gives the viewer as much of a fright as it gives her. After that it is somehow reminiscent of Phantom of the Opera, not without advantage. Well worth a look.
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- Budget
- $800,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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