The Lodger (1932 film)
1932 film
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The Lodger is a 1932 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]
Paul Rotha
H. Fowler Mear
Ivor Novello (uncredited)
1913 novel
by Marie Belloc Lowndes
| The Lodger | |
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![](#/media/File:"The_Lodger"_(1932).jpg) U.S. Lobby card | |
| Directed by | Maurice Elvey |
| Written by | Miles Mander Paul Rotha H. Fowler Mear Ivor Novello (uncredited) |
| Based on | The Lodger 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes |
| Produced by | Julius Hagen |
| Starring | Ivor Novello Elizabeth Allan |
| Cinematography | Basil Emmott William Luff Sydney Blythe (uncredited) |
| Edited by | Jack Harris |
| Music by | W.L. Trytel (uncredited) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The film is also known as The Phantom Fiend in the United States, where it was released in truncated form in 1935.[3][4]
Plot
Cast
- Ivor Novello as Michel Angeloff/"The Bosnian Murderer"
- Elizabeth Allan as Daisy Bunting
- A. W. Baskcomb as George Bunting
- Barbara Everest as Mrs Bunting
- Jack Hawkins as Joe Martin
- Shayle Gardner as Detective Snell
- Peter Gawthorne as Lord Southcliff
- Kynaston Reeves as Bob Mitchell
- Drusilla Wills as Mrs Coles
- Anthony Holles as Silvano
- George Merritt as Commissioner
- Andreas Malandrinos as Rabinovitch
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.
