Word: lodger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Marie Belloc Lowndes wrote her masterpiece, "The Lodger," it was one of the finest studies in the reflexes of man that had ever graced back covers. The chiller is easily the best of the horror stories, and an honest presentation of it during the silent picture days was a tremendous...
...Lodger (20th Century-Fox) is a shy, vaseline-voiced neuropathologist (Laird Cregar) who begins to puzzle his landlady (Sara Allgood) when he turns the pictures in his room against the walls. They are all pictures of actresses. The landlady's niece (Merle Oberon) is also an actress; she delights the habitues of London's late 19th Century music halls with her dilutions of the cancan. She wants to divert her aunt's shy lodger too. He is diverted so violently that everybody suddenly realizes that he is Jack the Ripper, the author of the series of murders...
...real Ripper (who was never caught) cut the throats of and expertly mutilated six prostitutes. As fictionized in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes's famed thriller, The Lodger, he was less shocking, was motivated by religious mania. The screen Ripper, derived from Mrs. Lowndes's novel, is even less shocking. In part this is due to the fact that the audience knows from the start that Laird Cregar is the Ripper, so that the suspense is purely academic. In part it is due to the incredible elegance of the production and photography, which makes the whole film more memorable...
Clash by Night (by Clifford Odets; produced by Billy Rose). The husband, the lodger, the dissatisfied wife, turn up once again, to provide the season's biggest disappointment-a play by Odets with Tallulah Bankhead as star. As the wife, Tallulah has her fine sultry and tigerish moments, but seems out of her milieu-much more like the daughter of the late Speaker of the House of Representatives than the wife of a bohunk...
...credit side of Tech's Lodger are a new Varsity shell, seven oarsmen back from last year's boat which almost beat Yale, and a long head start over the Crimson on the water...