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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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| SPEClAL ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN EDlTON: The setting is London in the late 1880s. The monstrous kilIer, Jack the Ripper, is on the prowI, killing 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 beautiful 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. In fact, Palance—with his natural creepiness of voice, his threatening facial structure, his souI-piecing eyes, and his overalI sinister countenance—is really one of those "should-have-been-a-horror-star-but-never-was" types that can only Ieave 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 probably gave what is arguabIy the best cinematic portrayaI of the JekyIl/Hyde character in Dan Curtis's cIassic The Strange Case of Dr. JekyII and Mr. Hyde (1968). He aIso gave a fine (and somewhat sympathetic) interpretation of the blood-sucking count in DracuIa (1974) for the same Dan Curtis production unit. So Man in the Attic is definitely 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 HoIIywood when this film was made (very Iate 1953) the fiImmakers decided to opt for the European 1.66 widescreen standard. We present The Man in the Attic in its original 1.66 widescreen format for the first time on DVD. |
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