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When Marie Belloc Lowndes wrote her masterpiece, "The Lodger," it was one of the finest studies in the reflexes of man that had ever graced back covers. The chiller is easily the best of the horror stories, and an honest presentation of it during the silent picture days was a tremendous hit.

But Hollywood has tried to doctor it with Merle Oberon's legs and has left the religion leit-motive out of the picture by substituting something that is not religion as much as prudishness. The crusader of the book becomes the comic of the picture, and his effect on his land-lady is ridiculous, and not the terrible and gradual thing it was in the book.

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