
Psycho(1960)
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.


“PROBING EYES that marked the woman he loved for death!”
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Merle Oberon
Kitty Langley

Laird Cregar
Mr. Slade

George Sanders
Inspector John Warwick

Cedric Hardwicke
Robert Bonting

Sara Allgood
Ellen Bonting

Aubrey Mather
Superintendent Sutherland

Queenie Leonard
Daisy the Maid

Doris Lloyd
Jennie

David Clyde
Det. Sgt. Bates

Helena Pickard
Annie Rowley
The Lodger is a thriller, mystery, horror film released in 1944 exploring themes of suspicion of murder, jack the ripper, lodger, victorian england, beautiful woman, film noir. Directed by John Brahm, it stars Merle Oberon, Laird Cregar, George Sanders. In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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