Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
- Regia
- Sceneggiatura
- Star
Barbara Everest
- Mrs. Bunting
- (as Barbara Everst)
Kynaston Reeves
- Bob Mitchell
- (as P. Kynaston Reeves)
Molly Fisher
- Gladys Sims
- (as Mollie Fisher)
Andreas Malandrinos
- Rabinovitch
- (as Andrea Malandrinas)
Harold Meade
- Minor Role
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Ian Wilson
- Newspaper Seller
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Recensione in evidenza
This film, known in the US as 'The Phantom Fiend' and seemingly only surviving in appalling prints with muddy soundtrack, was the first sound remake of Hitchcock's wonderfully atmospheric silent classic, 'The Lodger'.
As in the earlier film, British composer and matinée idol Ivor Novello plays the mysterious lodger of the title, this time affecting a bizarre European accent and managing to be even more creepy than in the silent version. His acting though was far too mannered for the sound screen, even if we do get to hear his piano playing in this film!
In support, Elizabeth Allen and a very young Jack Hawkins are not at all bad, although the story is extremely familiar and you could take a fair attempt at guessing the ending. Maurice Elvey's direction is rather pedestrian but the principals are photographed well and the tension is kept up well over the short running time.
Not a substitute for the silent version (or the superior sound version with Laird Cregar) but an interesting curio.
As in the earlier film, British composer and matinée idol Ivor Novello plays the mysterious lodger of the title, this time affecting a bizarre European accent and managing to be even more creepy than in the silent version. His acting though was far too mannered for the sound screen, even if we do get to hear his piano playing in this film!
In support, Elizabeth Allen and a very young Jack Hawkins are not at all bad, although the story is extremely familiar and you could take a fair attempt at guessing the ending. Maurice Elvey's direction is rather pedestrian but the principals are photographed well and the tension is kept up well over the short running time.
Not a substitute for the silent version (or the superior sound version with Laird Cregar) but an interesting curio.
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- QuizIvor Novello reprises his lead role from Alfred Hitchcock's silent classic Il pensionante (1927). Hitchcock was asked to direct the sound remake of his 1927 film, but declined.
- BlooperNear the end, in the public house scene, Michel (Ivor Novello) overturns his drink of beer and we see the glass fragments spilled onto his table. In the next shot of the table the main piece of broken glass is miraculously upright. Subsequently, the shattered glass reverts back to its original state when a waiter picks up the largest intact piece of glass and places it upright on the table.
- ConnessioniEdited into Terror! Theatre: The Phantom Fiend (1957)
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By what name was The Lodger (1932) officially released in India in English?
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