Man in the Attic

Man in the Attic
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHugo Fregonese
Screenplay byBarré Lyndon
Robert Presnell Jr.
Based onThe Lodger
1913 novel
by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Produced byRobert L. Jacks
StarringJack Palance
Constance Smith
Byron Palmer
CinematographyLeo Tover
Edited byMarjorie Fowler
Music byHugo Friedhofer
Production
companies
Panoramic Productions
Leonard Goldstein
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • December 31, 1953 (1953-12-31) (San Francisco)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Man in the Attic is a 1953 American mystery film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Jack Palance, Constance Smith and Byron Palmer.[1][2] 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.[citation needed]

It was released in the United States on December 23 by Twentieth Century Fox.

  1. ^ "Man in the Attic". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Man in the Attic". afi.com. Retrieved 2024-02-03.