In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Acting
Laird Cregar's towering, trembling menace steals every frame.
Cinematography
Shadow-drenched Victorian London you can practically smell.
Direction
Brahm turns staircases into instruments of terror.
Director
John Brahm
Merle Oberon
Kitty Langley
Laird Cregar
Mr. Slade
George Sanders
Inspector John Warwick
Cedric Hardwicke
Robert Bonting
Sara Allgood
Ellen Bonting
Aubrey Mather
Superintendent Sutherland
Queenie Leonard
Daisy the Maid
Doris Lloyd
Jennie
David Clyde
Det. Sgt. Bates
Helena Pickard
Annie Rowley
Ruth Clifford
Hairdresser (uncredited)
Thora Hird
First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Wiggy (uncredited)
C. Montague Shaw
Stage Manager (uncredited)
Skelton Knaggs
Man with Cart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laird Cregar was so disturbed by typecasting after this and 'Hangover Square' that he crashed-dieted for a romantic lead, dying at 31 from complications.
This was Fox's third Lodger adaptation—Hitchcock made the first silent version in 1927, proving the Ripper myth sells across decades.
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