The Lodger (1932 film)

The Lodger
U.S. Lobby card
Directed by	Maurice Elvey
Produced by	Julius Hagen
Written by	Miles Mander and Paul Rotha (scenario) H. Fowler Mear (adaptation) Ivor Novello (uncredited)
Based on	the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes (as Mrs. Belloc Lowndes)
Starring	Ivor Novello Elizabeth Allan
Music by	W.L. Trytel (uncredited)
Cinematography	Basil Emmott William Luff Sydney Blythe (uncredited)
Edited by	Jack Harris
Production company	Julius Hagen Productions
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK)
Release dates	8 September 1932 (London) (UK)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Lodger is a 1932 British thriller film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan and Jack Hawkins. It is based on the 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.

The film is also known as The Phantom Fiend in the USA, where it was released in truncated form in 1935.

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.

Cast

• Ivor Novello - Michel Angeloff
• Elizabeth Allan - Daisy Bunting
• A.W. Baskcomb - George Bunting
• Barbara Everest - Mrs Bunting
• Jack Hawkins - Joe Martin
• Shayle Gardner - Detective Snell
• Peter Gawthorne - Lord Southcliff
• Kynaston Reeves - Bob Mitchell
• Drusilla Wills - Mrs Coles
• Anthony Holles - Silvano
• George Merritt - Commissioner

External links

• The Lodger at IMDb
• The Lodger is available for free download at the Internet Archive