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THE PHANTOM FIEND aka The Lodger (1932) Ivor Novello & Elizabeth Allan | Action, Crime | B&W
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 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.
The film is also known as The Phantom Fiend in the United States, where it was released in truncated form in 1935.
SYNOPSIS
A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
CAST & CREW
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
Directed by Maurice Elvey
Written by Miles Mander, Paul Rotha, H. Fowler Mear
Based on The Lodger 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Produced by Julius Hagen
Cinematography Basil Emmott, William Luff
Edited by Jack Harris
Production company Julius Hagen Productions
Distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK)
Release date 8 September 1932 (London) (UK)
Running time 85 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
NOTES
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.
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