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I saw a movie called “The Lodger” with my family when I was young. It was possibly from 1943 or ’44. Who was the male lead? Was this an early Hitchcock? It caused bad dreams for years.

“The Lodger,” from 1944, starred Laird Cregar as the mysterious, dangerous lodger renting a room from a couple (Sara Allgood and Cedric Hardwicke); the cast also includes Merle Oberon and George Sanders, with John Brahm directing.

You are not entirely off base about a Hitchcock connection. The movie is a remake of a 1927 “The Lodger” directed by Hitchcock, with both films based on a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes. While the Hitchcock version has many admirers, at least one reference says the later film is better.

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