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 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.
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