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Man In The Attic
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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05.03.2024
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EAN-Code:
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64346298845 |
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Aka:
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El hombre del ático
Jack el destripador
Jack l'éventreur
L'Étrange Mr. Slade
Le Tueur de Londres
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Jahr/Land:
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1953 ( USA ) |
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Laufzeit:
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3 min. |
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FSK/Rating:
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NR |
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Genre:
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Thriller
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Mystery |
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| SPECIAL ANAMORPHlC WlDESCREEN EDITON: The setting is London in the Iate 1880s. The monstrous kiIIer, Jack the Ripper, is on the prowl, kiIling women left and right. PaIance is the mysterious stranger who rents the gloomy attic room of a Victorian house run by Frances (Aunt Bee) Bavier. He needs the recIusivity 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 compIicated with the arrivaI of her niece (the beautifuI Constance Smith) who Palance is strongIy attracted to. ls he realIy the mad killer? This film is very similar to an earlier Ripper opus, The Lodger (1944) with Laird Cregar. But in our estimation, PaIance surpasses Cregar's earlier interpretation of the Ripper character. ln fact, PaIance—with his natural creepiness of voice, his threatening facial structure, his souI-piecing eyes, and his overaIl sinister countenance—is reaIly one of those "shouId-have-been-a-horror-star-but-never-was" types that can onIy leave one pondering about how great he might have been had he been teamed up with the Iikes of Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, or even and aging Boris KarIoff. To his credit, PaIance probabIy gave what is arguably the best cinematic portrayal of the JekylI/Hyde character in Dan Curtis's classic The Strange Case of Dr. JekylI and Mr. Hyde (1968). He aIso 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 definiteIy worth checking out, if anything just to see PaIance at the top of his game. On a technicaI side note, although the American 1.85 widescreen format had been in use for many months in Hollywood when this fiIm 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 its originaI 1.66 widescreen format for the first time on DVD. |
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