The Lodger (1932 film)

The Lodger is a 1930 British thriller film directed by Maurice Elvey, and starring Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, and Jack Hawkins. It is based on the 1913 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.

The film is also known as The Phantom Fiend in the United States, where it was released in truncated form in 1935.

Cast

 * Ivor Novello as Michel Angeloff/"The Bosnian Murderer"
 * Elizabeth Allan as Daisy Bunting
 * A. W. Baskcomb as George Bunting
 * Barbara Everest as Mrs Bunting
 * Jack Hawkins as Joe Martin
 * Shayle Gardner as Detective Snell
 * Peter Gawthorne as Lord Southcliff
 * Kynaston Reeves as Bob Mitchell
 * Drusilla Wills as Mrs Coles
 * Anthony Holles as Silvano
 * George Merritt as Commissioner
 * Andreas Malandrinos as Rabinovitch

Reception
In the 2001 film Gosford Park, Ivor Novello is taunted that the film "should just flop like that". The screenwriter Julian Fellowes states in an audio commentary that Novello's talkie remake failed, while the silent original had been a hit.