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.

I wonder if Palance' character was inspired by Montague John Druitt, a man who became a Ripper suspect because he had drowned himself about the time the murders ended. Druitt's own family suspected he might have been the Ripper, describing him as "sexually insane." Though this judgement might simply have been a reference to his supposed homosexuality.
Personally, I doubt it was Druitt... or Jack Palance.