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Man in the Attic (1953)

Overview: 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?

Genres: Thriller, Crime, Horror

Director: Hugo Fregonese

Cast: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier, Rhys Williams

Original Language: EN

Original Title: Man in the Attic

Budget: N/A

Revenue: N/A

MPAA Rating: PG

Keywords: london, england, based on novel or book, jack the ripper, victorian england, serial killer

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Reviews

CinemaSerf (June 22, 2022)

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 he takes a shine to her actress niece "Lily" (Constance Smith) and we really do wonder if she is soon to be toast, too! Hugo Fregonese does manage to build a little menace into this: the dark eerie settings, the foggy London scenes all add a richness to the drama. Palance, however, is as wooden as a picket fence; he brings very little to his part. Indeed, aside from an amiable few scenes from Rhys Williams as "Harley", the acting is all a bit dry and stagey and that drags the whole thing down rather. It is still quite watchable, though, but with a better actor in the lead it could have been much more intriguing and I think I preferred "The Lodger" (1944).