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Man in the Attic

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

5.4(54)19531h 22m2

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?

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Released
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Language
English
  • london, england
  • based on novel or book
  • jack the ripper
  • victorian england
  • serial killer

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical31 Dec 1953
  • NetherlandsNL

    • PhysicalDVD2 Aug 2005

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Man in the Attic was released on 31 December 1953.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/22/2022

    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 he takes a shine to …

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