Man in the Attic Poster

Man in the Attic (1953)

12/23/1953 Thriller, Crime, Horror 1h 22m
55%
User
Score
6.1/10

The Life...The Loves...The Crimes of Jack the Ripper!

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?

Robert Presnell Jr.

Screenplay

Hugo Fregonese

Director

Barré Lyndon

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Jack Palance

Jack Palance

Slade

Constance Smith

Constance Smith

Lily Bonner

Byron Palmer

Byron Palmer

Insp. Paul Warwick

Frances Bavier

Frances Bavier

Helen Harley

Rhys Williams

Rhys Williams

William Harley

Sean McClory

Sean McClory

Constable #1

Leslie Bradley

Leslie Bradley

Constable #2

Tita Phillips

Tita Phillips

Daisy (the maid)

Lester Matthews

Lester Matthews

Chief Insp. Melville

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Media

Man in the Attic (1953) - Trailer

Man in the Attic (1953) - Trailer

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on 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...

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