Man in the Attic (1953)

19531h 22mdir. Hugo FregoneseUnited Statesmystery filmfilm noir

With Jack Palance, Frances Bavier, Constance Smith, Rhys Williams, Sean McClory, Leslie Bradley, Lester Matthews, Lilian Bond

Directed by Hugo Fregonese

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Man in the Attic is a 1953 American horror film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Jack Palance, Constance Smith and Byron Palmer. The screenplay was by Barré Lyndon and Robert Presnell Jr. based on the 1913 novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes which fictionalizes the Jack the Ripper killings. It had been previously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927, by Maurice Elvey in 1932, by John Brahm in 1944; it was again filmed by David Ondaatje in 2009.

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