FILM 2117: THE LODGER (1944)

TRIVIA: Merle Oberon fell in love with the film's cinematographer, Lucien Ballard, and they married the following year. Because of facial scars Oberon sustained in a car accident, Ballard developed a unique light for her that washed out any signs of her blemishes. The device is known to this day as the Obie (not to be confused with the Off-Broadway award).

There is a real Black Museum (now called the Crime Museum) at Scotland Yard. It officially came into existence in 1875 and has a police inspector and a police constable assigned to official duty there. It is not open to the public, but can be visited by police officers from any of the country's police forces by appointment.

The movie was later remade by 20th Century Fox as Man in the Attic (1953), starring Jack Palance as Slade. The remake was released under Fox's Panoramic Productions label. Barré Lyndon's screenplay was updated for the remake by Robert Presnell Jr., and Hugo Friedhofer's music score was also reused. The remake was shot on the same sets, and reused footage from this film of the London police pursuing Jack the Ripper through the streets and over the rooftops.

One of the first movies to have a point of view shot representing the killer's perception.

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