--- title: 'Man in the Attic (1953)' type: 'film' director: 'Hugo Fregonese' released: '1953-01-01' runtime_minutes: 82 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Horror' - 'Mystery' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/man-in-the-attic-1953' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047209/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Man in the Attic (1953) 1953 · 82 min · Drama, Horror, Mystery · United States ## Synopsis 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Hugo Fregonese](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-fregonese) - **Screenplay:** [Barré Lyndon](https://cinepixo.com/people/barre-lyndon) - **Original Music Composer:** [Hugo Friedhofer](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-friedhofer) - **Director of Photography:** [Leo Tover](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-tover) ## Cast - [Lester Matthews](https://cinepixo.com/people/lester-matthews) - [Sean McClory](https://cinepixo.com/people/sean-mcclory) - [Rhys Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/rhys-williams) - [Franklyn Farnum](https://cinepixo.com/people/franklyn-farnum) - [Bob Reeves](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-reeves) - [Jack Palance](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-palance) - [Frances Bavier](https://cinepixo.com/people/frances-bavier) - [Leslie Bradley](https://cinepixo.com/people/leslie-bradley) - [Ben Wright](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-wright) - [Lilian Bond](https://cinepixo.com/people/lilian-bond) - [Constance Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/constance-smith) - [Colin Kenny](https://cinepixo.com/people/colin-kenny) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/man-in-the-attic-1953 Film facts: Wikidata (Q4004284); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.