Jack the Ripper – 1959 | 84 mins | Mystery, Thriller | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Gruesome account of the mysteries surrounding the most infamous serial killer of them all; Jack the Ripper. Belying its obvious low budget the film manages to effectively recreate period London in an atmospheric and suspenseful dramatisation. Set in Victorian London, 1888, Scotland Yard Inspector O’Neill (Eddie Byrne) is joined on this occasion by American detective Sam Lowry (Lee Patterson) in the hunt for the man brutally murdering prostitutes in Whitechapel. Clues at the scene of the grisly murders lead them to theorise that an insane surgeon, Sir David Rogers (Ewen Solon), is the guilty party, and seeking one particular woman, Mary Clarke. The guilty surgeon meets a grisly end when he becomes trapped in an elevator shaft, and is crushed to death by a descending elevator during the films closing sequence