The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

Feb 14, 1927

1h 31m

★ 7.1

Overview

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

Genres

Crime

Thriller

Mystery

Production Companies

Carlyle Blackwell Productions

Gainsborough Pictures

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog Trailers

Cast

The Lodger Jonathan Drew

Ivor Novello

Mrs. Bunting the Landlady

Marie Ault

Mr. Bunting

Arthur Chesney

Daisy Bunting

June Tripp

Joe Chandler

Malcolm Keen

Dancer at Ball (uncredited)

Reginald Gardiner

Showgirl Victim (uncredited)

Eve Gray

Man in Newspaper Office (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock

Woman Listening to Wireless (uncredited)

Alma Reville

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