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Man in the Attic

1953

With Jack the Ripper killing women in the Whitechapel district of London, people are on edge. Enter the mysterious Mr. Slade who arrives at the home of Helen and William Harley looking to rent rooms. Slade is a strange man. He is a respected pathologist and researcher at a major hospital but very much keeps to himself. He also happens to out of the house every time the Ripper strikes. Mrs. Harley becomes convinced that Slade is the Ripper but with tensions mounting across the city, the evidence is anything but clear.


Man in the Attic is a 1953 in film mystery film directed by Hugo Fregonese. It was released in the United States on December 23 by Twentieth Century Fox. The movie, based on the 1913 novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, fictionalizes the Jack the Ripper killings which was previously filmed by The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, by The Lodger (1932 film), by The Lodger (1944 film), and subsequently by The Lodger (2009 film).

Plot summary


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.

Cast

  • Jack Palance as Slade
  • Constance Smith as Lily Bonner
  • Byron Palmer as Insp. Paul Warwick
  • Frances Bavier as Helen Harley
  • Rhys Williams (actor) as William Harley

See also

  • Jack the Ripper fiction

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    Category:1953 films
    Category:American films
    Category:American mystery films
    Category:Film noir
    Category:Films based on works by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
    Category:Films set in London
    Category:Jack the Ripper in fiction
    Category:20th Century Fox films

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