Man in the Attic

Based On the book by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

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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Release date:

1953

Director:

Hugo Fregonese

Cast:

Jack Palance, Frances Bavier, Constance Smith, Rhys Williams, Sean McClory

Genre:

Mystery, Horror, Drama, Film noir

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1953 in adaptations