The Lodger

(1944)

84 minutes

Horror
 
Directed by John Brahm

Cast:

Merle Oberon as Kitty Langley
Laird Cregar as Mr. Slade, the Lodger
George Sanders as Inspector John Warwick
Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Robert Bonting
Sara Allgood as Ellen Bonting
Aubrey Mather as Superintendent Sutherland
Queenie Leonard as Daisy 
Doris Lloyd as Jennie
David Clyde as Detective Sergeant Bates
Helena Pickard as Annie Rowley  

The Lodger trailer  

The film takes place during the late Victorian London, where Jack the Ripper has been murdering and mutilating actresses when night falls. The Burtons are going through some monetary problems so they take in a lodger. He appears to be decent, but Mrs. Burton becomes suspicious of him thinking he may be the ripper, due to his strange are forced to take in a lodger due to financial hardship. He seems like a nice young man, but Mrs. Burton suspects him of being the ripper because of his strange disposition. She also has a beautiful niece who lives with that and she happens to be an actress.