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Man in the Attic is a 1953 mystery film directed by Hugo Fregonese. It was released in the United States on December 23 by Twentieth Century Fox.
Man in the Attic: Directed by Hugo Fregonese. With Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier. After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.
After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Synopsis. London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him ...
Overview. London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments."
Based on Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novelization of the legendary killings, the film bathes the studio-created Whitechapel area of London in menacing fog and mist sliced by the light from gas lamps and constables’ flashlights as Scotland Yard Inspector Paul Warwick (Byron Palmer) hunts down the Victorian slasher.
On the night that a fourth woman is killed, the mysterious Slade (Jack Palance) rents out the attic of William and Helen Harley. Later, he meets their niece, Lily Bonner (Constance Smith), an...
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