DVD: The Lodger - 1944 Thriller, Scotland Yard Inspector Pegs Jack The Ripper

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The Lodger is a 1944 American horror film about Jack the Ripper, based on the 1913 novel of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes. It stars Merle Oberon, George Sanders, and Laird Cregar, features Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and was directed by John Brahm from a screenplay by Barré Lyndon.


Lowndes' story had previously been filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927 as a silent film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, and by Maurice Elvey with sound in 1932 as The Lodger. It was remade again in 1953 by Hugo Fregonese as Man in the Attic, starring Jack Palance, and again in 2009 by David Ondaatje.


REAR COVER


irector John Brahm's irresistibly unnerving 1944 remake of the Hitchcock silent film about Jack the Ripper is considered better than the original, and one of the finest films about the notorious killer in cinema history.


Not long after a mysterious young "medical scientist" named Slade (Laird Cregar) rents a flat in the heart of London's Whitechapel district, a series of brutal murders begins. But despite the fact that the murder victims are all female stage performers, the landlord's niece Kitty (Merle Oberon), an ingénue, is unphased by the crimes - or by the unusual, brooding man in her family's midst. As Kitty coquettishly interacts with a Scotland Yard detective (George Sanders), she becomes Slade's object of obsession in this pulse-pounding thriller that "packs an unsettling punch." (At-A-Glance Film Reviews)


DETAILED PLOT


Slade, a serial killer, is a lodger in a 19th-century family's London home. So is a singer, Kitty Langley, who definitely has caught Slade's eye. The man of the house, Robert Bonting, is recovering from a nervous breakdown caused by business reverses. So the family is initially blind to Slade's increasingly peculiar behavior, such as turning all portraits of women to face the wall and burning odds and ends in the middle of the night.


Women are being brutally killed in the Whitechapel district. Scotland Yard is investigating, and a detective, John Warwick, begins to cast his suspicions in Slade's direction. Kitty, meanwhile, has also developed an attraction to Slade. When Jennie, a former actress who asked Kitty for a handout just before being murdered in her own home is discovered, the investigation increasingly revolves around Kitty's circle of associates.


Slade goes to see Kitty perform at a cabaret. Watching her and her troupe perform a flesh-revealing Can-Can dance brings out his worst instincts. He goes backstage afterward, rants that his brother had taken his own life due to a failed association with an actress; and tries to make her his next victim. But Warwick's men get there just in time. Unwilling to be taken into police custody, Slade flees to the riverbank, and leaps to his death.

  • Condition: Very good
  • No Of Discs: 1
  • Case Type: Tall/DVD Case
  • Rating: CTC
  • Subtitle Language: English, Spanish, French
  • MPN: Multi Region Player Required To Play IN Aust & NZ, Imported Into Aust & NZ - Region 1
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox
  • Format: DVD
  • Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
  • Language: English, English Captioned
  • Release Year: 1944
  • Actor: Starring Merle Oberon George Sanders Laird Cregar
  • Features: Commentaries By Film Historians, The Making Of The Film Featurette, The Lodger Vintsge Radio Show, Restoration Comparison, Advertising Gallery, Still Gallery, Black & White, With Subtitles
  • Movie/TV Title: The Lodger
  • Season: Based on the novel The Lodger 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes
  • Music Artist: Hugo Friedhofer
  • Video Format: NTSC
  • Director: John Brahm
  • Sub-Genre: Mystery
  • Cinematic Movement: Arthouse/Independent
  • Edition: Standard Edition, Restored & Remastered, Full Frame, Stereo, Black & White
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Type: Movie
  • Producer: Robert Bassler
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Run Time: 84 Minutes
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • UPC: 9317486006251

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