Lodger, The (1932)

Date: 1932
Director: Maurice Elvey
Production Company: Twickenham Studios

Stars: Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, A.W. Baskcomb, Kynaston Reeves, Jack Hawkins, Barbara Everest
Location(s): London, Middlesex

Region(s): London H-L, South East E-L

Storyline:

A series of baffling murders are committed and suspicion points to a household’s lodger.

Additional Information:

Screen captures uploaded by Phil Wilkinson

This was the first sound remake of the 1927 Hitchcock silent classic ‘The Lodger’ inspired by the Jack the Ripper legend.

Also known as ‘The Phantom Fiend’ (US Title)

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15 Oct 2019

A newspaper boy calls out the headline that another murder has been committed. Across the road from the studio on the junction of St Margarets Road and Crown Road in Twickenham with the St Margarets Hotel prominent. The location was seen in 'Vault of Horror'.

Antony Blair arrived outside St. Margarets Tavern nearly 90 years later and even managed to get a bicycle in the shot!

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22 Oct 2019

Another vendor sells the grim news. Dave W provides free happy news telling us that this is from the junction of Kendal Street (formerly Cambridge Street), London W2 looking east, across the Edgware Road to George St (formerly Upper George Street) and the Marylebone Presbyterian Church Hall. (RL)

Denis Hoare, with thanks to Dave for providing him with an excuse to revisit "old haunts", provides us with this shot taken from the junction with Portsea Place and Kendal Street W2. Denis remarks that the small red patch to the bottom left of the parking sign appears to be the only original building that remains from the screen capture. Its 87 years after all! (RL)