The Lodger (1944 film)

The Lodger is a 1944 horror film about Jack the Ripper, based on the 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 Barr Lyndon.

Slade, a serial killer, is a lodger in a 19th Century familys London home. So is a singer, Kitty Langley, who definitely has caught Slades eye.Women are being brutally killed in the Whitechapel district. Scotland Yard is investigating and a detective, John Warwick, begins to cast his suspicions in Slades direction. Warwick, meanwhile, has also developed an attraction to Langley. ........

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