Man in the Attic
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| Man in the Attic | |
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| Directed by | Hugo Fregonese |
| Produced by | Robert L. Jacks |
| Screenplay by | Barré Lyndon Robert Presnell Jr. |
| Based on | The Lodger 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes |
| Starring | Jack Palance Constance Smith Byron Palmer |
| Music by | Hugo Friedhofer |
| Cinematography | Leo Tover |
| Edited by | Marjorie Fowler |
Production company | Panoramic Productions Leonard Goldstein |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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. The movie is based on the 1913 novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, which fictionalizes the Jack the Ripper killings, and was previously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927, by Maurice Elvey in 1932, by John Brahm in 1944, and subsequently by David Ondaatje in 2009.
Contents
1 Plot summary
2 Main cast
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
Plot summary[edit]
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The story takes place in London, 1888. On the third night of the Jack the Ripper killings, a man rents out an attic from an older couple in need of extra income. The man (Jack Palance), a research pathologist, begins working on his experiments in the rooms. Helen Harley, the landlady (Frances Bavier), becomes suspicious of the man, especially when her niece Lily Bonner (Constance Smith) shows an interest in him.
Main cast[edit]
Jack Palance as Slade
Constance Smith as Lily Bonner
Byron Palmer as Insp. Paul Warwick
Frances Bavier as Helen Harley
Rhys Williams as William Harley
Sean McClory as Constable No. 1
Leslie Bradley as Constable No. 2- Tita Phillips as Daisy
Lester Matthews as Chief Insp. Melville
Harry Cording as Detective Sgt. Bates
Lisa Daniels as Mary Lenihan
Lilian Bond as Annie Rowley
Isabel Jewell as Katy
See also[edit]
- Jack the Ripper in fiction
References[edit]
External links[edit]
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Man in the Attic on IMDb
Man in the Attic at AllMovie
Man in the Attic at the TCM Movie Database
Man in the Attic at the American Film Institute Catalog
Man in the Attic is available for free download at the Internet Archive Creative Commons Licensed (Public Domain).
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Categories:
- 1953 films
- English-language films
- 1950s historical films
- American historical films
- American films
- American mystery films
- Film noir
- Films based on works by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
- Films set in London
- Films about Jack the Ripper
- Serial killer films
- 20th Century Fox films
- Films set in 1888
- Films directed by Hugo Fregonese
- Films scored by Hugo Friedhofer
- Mystery film stubs
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