The Lodger (1932 film)

The Lodger
The Lodger
	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	Julius Hagen Productions
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK)
Release date	8 September 1930 (London);
Running time	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]

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.