Man in the Attic

1953 PG-13 1h 22m

5.5 / 10 51

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5.5/10

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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 interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?

Director Hugo Fregonese

Writers

Robert Presnell Jr.Barré Lyndon Marie Belloc Lowndes

Stars

Jack Palance Constance Smith Byron Palmer

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Geronimo1967 22 Jun 2022

6/10

Jack Palance is "Slade", a curiously enigmatic stranger who takes rooms in the home of the "Harley" family. It's at the height of the paranoia in Victorian London surrounding the "Jack the Ripper" killings and as our story develops, both "Mrs. Harley" (Frances Bavier) and the audience begin to suspect that our reclusive visitor may well have a secret to keep. Those suspicions only intensify when ...