I watched it with the sound down while listening to Youtube podcasts. It looks like a nice little made for TV period piece... but that's not why I gave it six stars. I gave it six stars because I'm in love. Not with the actress who played the role(necessarily), nor the person the character is based on. I'm in love with the character in the movie. There, I said it!

Perhaps I'll acquire it in the near future and watch (and listen to) it commercial free(without having to be on "advertisement mute alert"). I sure hope she has a reasonably sultry voice, and not an annoying high pitched modern American... squeak(?)... squawk(?). I... I... don't think my heart could take that kind of disappointment. :(

Oh look! Here comes the nurse with my brain medicine. Yippeeee! Gotta go...

The woman being portrayed looked more like Ma Kettle than the actress that was chosen. Her lover was a mousy looking, little man with thick glasses. Aside from those gross inaccuracies, spend some time in your own attic when the heat index is 110 or when the wind chill is minus 20. The attics in all my homes had no heat, air conditioning, electricity, plumbing or a FLOOR. So; how can I believe a 100+ year old home had a habitable attic? My friend's 90 year old home doesn't even have attic access. This is easily the most far fetched, "true" story I've ever seen. In fact; I can't swallow the belief that Otto was literate, let alone a typist.

"The Lover in the Attic" was a lackluster film in large part due to the slow pacing. The long midsection of the film was sluggish with repetitive scenes of the young lover of Walburga "Dolly" Oesterreich (née Korschel).

Miss Dolly Korschel married a fat and abusive business magnate named Fred Osterreich. For a lengthy period in the marriage, Miss Korschel kept her lover hidden in the attic. The man was an aspiring, but untalented, mystery writer named Otto Sanhuber.

A major problem of the film was the lack of sympathy for either Otto or his Dolly. It was clear that Fred was a repellent creature. But there were never sparks of genuine affection between Dolly and Otto. The film takes great pains in demonstrating that Dolly only wanted a sex slave.

In film technique, a technical disaster was the staging of the death scene where Otto (accidentally?) shoots Fred. The actual sequence of events was sloppy in the film editing, and it was never made clear what happened with the two males rolling on the floor.

The one strength of the film was in period costuming. The era of Prohibition was well-established due to the apparel. But in one of the scenes in the speakeasies, it made no sense that Otto would get a case of the sweats and be forced to leave. He seemed to be living for moments just like this one where he could get out of his attic "prison."

The trial scene was also disappointing with the homicide case argued unconvincingly by both sides, resulting in a hung jury for Dolly and a brief sentence for Otto, which was subsequently reduced due to statute of limitations.

There was an obligation to provide some human element to this story. But there was no moral lesson and, above all, no compassion given for the three poor slobs who were the main characters.

Very disappointing!