CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1944
The Lodger posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1944 1h 24m USA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Brahm again builds a feverish Victorian London nightmare, pairing musical beauty with psychological instability and a tightening atmosphere of menace.

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Its shadow-drenched old-house setting, vulnerable heroine, and lurking murderer create the same refined, claustrophobic Gothic suspense.

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A period domestic thriller where elegant interiors become traps, sustained by unnerving manipulation and a steadily mounting sense of danger.

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Why this pick

Charles Laughton leads this somber Victorian crime drama, sharing The Lodger’s sympathy for troubled darkness and meticulous period mood.

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Tourneur turns a Victorian marriage and townhouse into an elegant maze of suspicion, danger, and softly sinister noir-Gothic shadows.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

Slade, a serial killer, is a lodger in a 19th-century family's London home. So is a singer, Kitty Langley, who definitely has caught Slade's eye.

02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Merle Oberon

Merle Oberon

Kitty Langley

Queenie Leonard

Daisy the Maid

Doris Lloyd

Jennie

Cedric Hardwicke

Robert Bonting

George Sanders

George Sanders

Inspector John Warwick