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Agee, James | February 12, 1944 issue

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The article presents information on the film "The Lodger." In the film everyone was trying for gentlemanly, intelligent horror, sustained only by tricks of secondary suspense, in too gentlemanly and too little incisively intelligent manner. As a result the beautiful interiors, the sometimes beautiful streets, and the too beautiful lighting and photography drew too much attention to their own sumptuous but very passive vitality, and the good performances of Laird Cregar, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Sars Aligood, and Merle Oberon also remained a purely visual pleasure.

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LODGER, The (Film); HORROR films; MOTION pictures; PHOTOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE; CREGAR, Laird
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