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Man In The Attic (1953)
American Mystery Thriller
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.
Film debut of Lisa Daniels.
Many believe the prime suspect in the murders was Montague John Druitt, a recently discharged teacher at a boys’ school, who committed suicide in the Thames in December 1888. After the discovery of his partially decomposed body, the hunt for the Ripper was ostensibly discontinued.
Man In The Attic 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.
Directed by | Hugo Fregonese |
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Screenplay by | Barré Lyndon Robert Presnell Jr. |
Based on | The Lodger 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes |
Produced by | Robert L. Jacks |
Starring | Jack Palance Constance Smith Byron Palmer |
Cinematography | Leo Tover |
Edited by | Marjorie Fowler |
Music by | Hugo Friedhofer |
Production
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Panoramic Productions
Leonard Goldstein |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |