Man in the Attic is a 1953 mystery film directed
by Hugo Fregonese. It was released in the United States on December 23
by Twentieth Century Fox. The movie is based on the 1913 novel The
Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, which fictionalizes the Jack the
Ripper killings, and was previously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in
1927, by Maurice Elvey in 1932, by John Brahm in 1944, and
subsequently by David Ondaatje in 2009.