The Lodger

1932
Approved
1h 25m

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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.A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

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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
(uncredited)

Ian Wilson

Newspaper Seller
(uncredited)

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Least of the Three

Lodger, The (1932)

** (out of 4)

The first remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 film of the same title. A serial killer is running through London at the same time as a strange young man (Ivor Novello) shows up at a boarding house. Even though this thing runs a small 60+ minutes it feels like three hours because the pacing is so incredibly slow and boring. The acting is among the worst I've ever seen and the performance by Novello is incredibly bad. I could help but laugh at his acting, which is so bad it almost seems like he's spoofing the film.

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Trivia
Ivor Novello reprises his lead role from Alfred Hitchcock's silent classic Les cheveux d'or (1927). Hitchcock was asked to direct the sound remake of his 1927 film, but declined.

Goofs
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.