The Lodger

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Cast

Merle Oberon

as Kitty Langley

Laird Cregar

as Mr. Slade

George Sanders

as Inspector John Warwick

Cedric Hardwicke

as Robert Bonting

Sara Allgood

as Ellen Bonting

Aubrey Mather

as Superintendent Sutherland

Queenie Leonard

as Daisy the Maid

Doris Lloyd

as Jennie

David Clyde

as Det. Sgt. Bates

Helena Pickard

as Annie Rowley

Reviews

John Chard

Your beauty is exquisite. Victorian London, Whitechapple, and some maniac is slaughtering women with stage backgrounds. Could it be that the mysterious Mr. Slade who has rented the upstairs rooms from Mrs Burton, is the man known as Jack the Ripper? This part of London is cloaked in fog, the cob...

CinemaSerf

This is quite a suspenseful drama set amongst the murderous goings-on of "Jack the Ripper" in Whitechapel in 19th century London. Laird Cregan is "Slade" - an imposing, secretive, man who takes up lodgings with Sir Cedric Hardwicke and his wife Sara Allgood. Gradually his nocturnal habits begin to a...

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