What movie did YOU just FINISH watching?
Dec 23, 2020 19:32:53 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Dec 23, 2020 19:32:53 GMT
The Lodger 1944 directed by John Brahm and based on a play by Marie Belloc Lowndess. Starring Laird Cregar, Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood and others.
Took a break from the Christmas themed movies and watched a foggy gas-lit London murder mystery instead. I've seen it recommended so many times here on CFB but for some reason or other I've pushed it forward to watch it myself, until now.
In late Victorian London, Jack the Ripper has been killing and maiming actresses in the night. The Burtons (Hardwicke and Allgood) are forced to take in a lodger (Cregar) due to financial hardship. He seems like a nice young man, but Mrs. Burton suspects him of being the ripper because of some mysterious and suspicious habits, and fears for her beautiful actress niece (Oberon) who lives with them. Inspector Warwick (Sanders) is on the case to catch the Ripper, and maybe the beautiful niece too for personal reasons...
The movie gives a very eerie feeling of a foggy gas-lit London that probably never was, except in movies. Eerie too is the Lodger as played by Laird Cregar, if a bit too over-obvious in that he certainly is doing some things that a very strange. Sanders gets the chance to play a charming good guy here, Oberon get's the chance to show her dancing skills. Hardwicke and Allgood are nearly comic reliefs, but they are not dumb and unnecessary characters, they do help the plot to move forward.
Entertaining is he or isn't he murder mystery. The real murderers victims are killed in a very gruesome manner, but are mostly only hinted in sparse sequences in this movie.
Took a break from the Christmas themed movies and watched a foggy gas-lit London murder mystery instead. I've seen it recommended so many times here on CFB but for some reason or other I've pushed it forward to watch it myself, until now.
In late Victorian London, Jack the Ripper has been killing and maiming actresses in the night. The Burtons (Hardwicke and Allgood) are forced to take in a lodger (Cregar) due to financial hardship. He seems like a nice young man, but Mrs. Burton suspects him of being the ripper because of some mysterious and suspicious habits, and fears for her beautiful actress niece (Oberon) who lives with them. Inspector Warwick (Sanders) is on the case to catch the Ripper, and maybe the beautiful niece too for personal reasons...
The movie gives a very eerie feeling of a foggy gas-lit London that probably never was, except in movies. Eerie too is the Lodger as played by Laird Cregar, if a bit too over-obvious in that he certainly is doing some things that a very strange. Sanders gets the chance to play a charming good guy here, Oberon get's the chance to show her dancing skills. Hardwicke and Allgood are nearly comic reliefs, but they are not dumb and unnecessary characters, they do help the plot to move forward.
Entertaining is he or isn't he murder mystery. The real murderers victims are killed in a very gruesome manner, but are mostly only hinted in sparse sequences in this movie.