The Lodger (1932 film) explained

The Lodger
Director:Maurice Elvey
Producer:Julius Hagen
Starring:Ivor Novello
Elizabeth Allan
Music:W.L. Trytel (uncredited)
Cinematography:Basil Emmott
William Luff
Sydney Blythe (uncredited)
Editing:Jack Harris
Studio:Julius Hagen Productions
Distributor:Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK)
Runtime: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]

Cast

Reception

In the 2001 film Gosford Park, Ivor Novello is taunted that the film "should just flop like that". The screenwriter Julian Fellowes states in an audio commentary that Novello's talkie remake failed, while the silent original had been a hit.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Lodger. https://web.archive.org/web/20090114061758/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/40555. dead. 14 January 2009. BFI.
  2. Web site: Marie Belloc Lowndes. rottentomatoes.com.
  3. Web site: A Lost Film: The Lodger (1932). alostfilm.com.
  4. Web site: AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A SCIENTIST! - The Lodger (1932). aycyas.com.