Movie from 1953

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"Man in the Attic" 1953 is a movie about the times, when Jack the Ripper dominated the quarter Whitechapel in London.
Jack Palance plays a nice, quiet pathologist, who rents two rooms from an elderly couple - played by Frances Bavier and Rhys Williams.
Jack Palance shows himself as a very sensitive character-actor. He did have something to do with a Paul Chechov - and all the Chechovs knew all about the Stanislavski-technique.
In the movie, this quiet pathologist is too much suspected for being the ripper - and he choses suicide at last. He once described a stroll near the water : The water is like liquid night, flowing into infinity - and that is what he went for in his final suicide. He couldn´t bear to be so suspected- just because he wasn´t like everybody else.
He lived rather isolated and worked at the university hospital both day and night.
This adress works in Denmark, where I live and belong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ3CjiDHcDs
I do hope, you will find it.

I'm watching it tonight!

This sounds very familiar. I may have seen it once. I've watched many films over my life. I don't remember the title, but I recognize the plot and that Jack Palance was in it.
It can also be viewed on Tubi TV.

Man in the Attic on Tubi
I have added it to my watch list.

I looked it up on IMDB and I saw Frances Bavier was in it. In the U.S. she is known for playing Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith show.
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I have seen it before.
I started watching it on Tubi, and realized I saw it on a show called Horror Hotel.

Also, your link worked for me.

Ok, I saw it.