London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Ivor Novello
as The Lodger Jonathan Drew
Marie Ault
as Mrs. Bunting the Landlady
Arthur Chesney
as Mr. Bunting
June Tripp
as Daisy Bunting
Malcolm Keen
as Joe Chandler
Reginald Gardiner
as Dancer at Ball (uncredited)
Eve Gray
as Showgirl Victim (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock
as Man in Newspaper Office (uncredited)
Alma Reville
as Woman Listening to Wireless (uncredited)