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SPECIAL ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN EDITON: The setting is London in the late 1880s. The monstrous killer, Jack the Ripper, is on the prowl, killing women left and right. Palance is the mysterious stranger who rents the gloomy attic room of a Victorian house run by Frances (Aunt Bee) Bavier. He needs the reclusivity of the room for his experiments. Every time there is a new Ripper killing, Bavier begins to suspect more and more that her new lodger is actually Jack the Ripper himself. Things become even more complicated with the arrival of her niece (the beautiful Constance Smith) who Palance is strongly attracted to. Is he really the mad killer? This film is very similar to an earlier Ripper opus, The Lodger (1944) with Laird Cregar. But in our estimation, Palance surpasses Cregar's earlier interpretation of the Ripper character. In fact, Palance with his natural creepiness of voice, his threatening facial structure, his soul-piecing eyes, and his overall sinister countenance is really one of those should-have-been-a-horror-star-but-never-was types that can only leave one pondering about how great he might have been had he been teamed up with the likes of Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, or even and aging Boris Karloff. To his credit, Palance probably gave what is arguably the best cinematic portrayal of the Jekyll/Hyde character in Dan Curtis's classic The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968). He also gave a fine (and somewhat sympathetic) interpretation of the blood-sucking count in Dracula (1974) for the same Dan Curtis production unit. So Man in the Attic is definitely worth checking out, if anything just to see Palance at the top of his game. On a technical side note, although the American 1.85 widescreen format had been in use for many months in Hollywood when this film was made (very late 1953) the filmmakers decided to opt for the European 1.66 widescreen standard. We present The Man in the Attic in it's original 1.66 widescreen format for the first time on DVD.
Title: | Man in the Attic |
Genre: | Mystery / Suspense, Horror |
Starring: | Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier, Rhys Williams, Leslie Bradley, Tita Phillips, Lester Mathews, Christopher Severn |
Director: | Hugo Fregonese |
Studio: | Sinister Cinema |
Attributes: | Manufactured on Demand, Widescreen, Mono Sound |
Release Date: | 3/5/2024 |
Original Year: | 1953 |
Product Type: | DVD |
Rated: | NR |
UPC: | 643462988457 |
Item #: | 2625626X |
Street Date: | 3/5/2024 |
Original Language: | ENG |
Run Time: | 82 minutes |
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CreditsJack Palance
Constance Smith
Byron Palmer
Frances Bavier
Rhys Williams
Leslie Bradley
Tita Phillips
Lester Mathews
Christopher Severn
Barré Lyndon
Leslie E. Bradley
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes
Robert Presnell Jr.
Robert Presnell, Jr.
Lester Matthews
Sean McClory
Harry Cording
Lisa Daniels
Lillian Bond
Isabel Jewell
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DirectorsHugo Fregonese
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ProducersRobert L. Jacks
Roger Corman