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The Lodger (1932)

NR Sep 08, 1932 Action, Thriller, Romance, Crime 1h 25m
User Score
53%
13 votes
Internet Movie Database
56%

A MYSTERY MASTERPIECE TAKES ON NEW LIFE

Overview

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

Miles Mander
Writer
Maurice Elvey
Director

Top Billed Cast

Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello

Michel Angeloff
Elizabeth Allan
Elizabeth Allan

Daisy Bunting
A.W. Baskcomb
A.W. Baskcomb

George Bunting
Barbara Everest
Barbara Everest

Mrs. Bunting
Jack Hawkins
Jack Hawkins

Joe Martin
Shayle Gardner
Shayle Gardner

Detective Snell
Peter Gawthorne
Peter Gawthorne

Lord Southcliff
Kynaston Reeves
Kynaston Reeves

Bob Mitchell
Drusilla Wills
Drusilla Wills

Mrs. Coles

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on June 15, 2025

I’m not too sure that with London regularly steeped in dense fog and with a murderer lurking the streets at night, I’d be looking to be renting out my spare room, but luckily for musician “Angeloff” (Ivor Novello) he not only finds bed and board with the kindly “Bunting” family but gets an added bonus in that he is soon also courting the daughter of the house, “Daisy” (Elizabeth Allan). Is he all he seems? Well the police are less than convinced as some of his nocturnal activities out-of-doors leave him open to suspicion. Now, what undoubtedly compromises this is the fact that the audience is in on the secret a bit too early in the proceedings and that it does take rather a while to get itself up and running. Once it is, though, the contributions from a lively Barbara Evere...

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