Review – The Lodger (1944)

This remake of an old Alfred Hitchcock silent thriller adds sound but not much more. A Jack-the-Ripper-esque killer haunts the gaslit streets of London, and suspicion falls on the creepy new lodger taken in by a down-on-his-luck businessman and his family. Laird Cregar does a delightfully twitchy turn or two as the title character, but for the most part this is dull stuff. Mildly amusing