Jack the Ripper... Film, TV, Documentary

[ChristineCB]

I've never seen this and, since it appears Sherlock & Watson don't go to Arizona, I don't know that I'll waste my time. Any film that doesn't have the Ripper tied to Arizona can't be too authentic, I figure. ha ha

Actually, I think the DUM BUSTERS III should now include a bombing mission to wipe out the moved London Bridge, once and for all. Wouldn't that be a handy tie-in? Sherlock leading the Lancasters...

[Hanseat]

Originally Posted by batman I have to disagree, IMHO Murder By Decree is wonderful, much better than the similarly themed A Study In Terror With John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser and Anthony Quayle.

No disagreement there, Bats. Definitely better than A Study In Terror.

Originally Posted by ChristineCB I've never seen this and, since it appears Sherlock & Watson don't go to Arizona, I don't know that I'll waste my time. Any film that doesn't have the Ripper tied to Arizona can't be too authentic, I figure.

I feel a new book by Cornwell coming on, Portrait of a Killer 2 1/2 - telling us all about how Sickert managed to escape to Arizona, arranged for London Bridge to be bought and brought to Lake Havasu, because it is the fetish of his psycho-sexual pathology, and then continued his bloody work under the pseudonym of "Cactus Jack".

Hanseat

[Harleybloke]

Originally Posted by Hanseat No disagreement there, Bats. Definitely better than A Study In Terror. I feel a new book by Cornwell coming on, Portrait of a Killer 2 1/2 - telling us all about how Sickert managed to escape to Arizona, arranged for London Bridge to be bought and brought to Lake Havasu, because it is the fetish of his psycho-sexual pathology, and than continued his bloody work under the pseudonym of "Cactus Jack". Hanseat

I worry about you people, I really do.........................................:confus ed:

[ChristineCB]

Originally Posted by Hanseat ... pseudonym of "Cactus Jack"...

And we all know that "Cactus Jack" is one of Hasselhoff's favorite nicknames.

[jaycad]

Originally Posted by helvis Hi i'm trying to get together a list of all appearances of 'Jack the Ripper be it film, TV or documentary from over the years so any input by anyone would be most welcome!.The more obscure the better!

there is a timeline of jack the ripper events which includes all tv/movies relating to jack the ripper on Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Main

[helvis]

Originally Posted by jaycad there is a timeline of jack the ripper events which includes all tv/movies relating to jack the ripper on Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Main

Nice link jaycad thanks very much, it's certainly gonna help some but it isn't that complete where movies are concerned!

[penfold]

From the silent era we have The Lodger, which is based on the Belloc-Lowndes novel of the same name; SPOILER ALERT but changed the denouement (In the novel, the lodger is the ripper, in the film, he isn't) and The Ripper puts in an appearance in the Louise Brooks Pandora Box, where SPOILER ALERT she moves from Berlin via the South of Franceto become a victim in the London fog.....

[clitheroekid]

Oooh, I love that London fog........

[ChristineCB]

Thanks for that link, JayCad. While it does lack the obvious links to all Arizona-Ripper-Wild West Shootout films, it does make me want to look up other Ripper sites and see how they're doing for film and book reviews.

I'm sure some sites will exclude the films/books they don't evaluate highly. I don't know how they can be so sure that Jack The Ripper really wasn't vacationing at the OK Corral and decided "There's got to be a better way..."?

[helvis]

"I'm gunnu hang up these six irons Billy Bob Englands a callin' fo' me, i'm gonna be myself a surgeon i was always handy with a blade"

[Hanseat]

Another one of the slightly obscurer variety: Das Ungeheuer von London City aka The Monster of London City (title of the dubbed English version). Part of the extremely successful series of "Edgar Wallace films" the Germans produced; this film is actually based on a book by Wallace's son, though. And don't get your hopes up when you see the accompanying movie poster on imdb - that's really the cover of a "double bill" dvd release and Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski do not appear in this particular half of the double bill.

And one off my own Ripper list, a film I haven't yet seen myself: Love Lies Bleeding. Sounded interesting when the project was first announced but has since its release received mainly bad reviews - of the "really bad" kind, not the "so bad it's fun to watch" kind, so I keep pushing it forever back to the back of my watch list.

Had a look at the "casebook" website a while ago and thought it was fairly good but promised slightly more than it delivered, especially in terms of completeness. Seems you had the same impression, helvis.

Hanseat

[Jack Gurney]

Ah, BRIDGE ACROSS TIME!1 So that's what it was clled!!

I remember being at school when this was shown on TV (as we were just coming up to the centenary of the 'Autumn Of Terror') and being really excited about its impending screening, as I was becoming quite the amateur Ripperologist by then- only to find out it was a pile of unadulterated horseshit without even so much as a theory as to Jack's identity- I do seem to remember some complete poindexter done up like Lon Chaney with red lenses and a top hat sinking into a river at the end, arms clutching in a strangling motion (why he would do this, when he murdered people with knives is beyond me So that's it, then. That's the American idea behind Jack The Ripper- some bloke called Jack in a hat. Mind you, for all its unadluterated horseshitness, I wouldn't mind seeing it again....

I like David Wickes' centenary ITV adaptation starring Michael Caine (although its Jekyll and Hyde follwup sucked donkey) and even copied out the script from VHS and tried to get my school to perform it as a play, but on reflection the photography, especially in the supposed 'East End' looks FAR too clean and shiny, and the theory isn't necessarily on I'd go for either. Great performance by Ken Bones as Robert Lees though- whatever happened to him?

I personally love the Monty Berman adaptation from 1958 with John Le Mesurier, although to be honest the theory behind that one is pants as well- a bit of a 'Dr Stanley', if you will. MURDER BY DECREE is a much better film than A STUDY IN TERROR (and indeed Christopher Plummer makes possibly the best Holmes I've ever seen outside Ian Richardson or the Mighty Cush, bringing an emotion to the role that had not been present before) but the latter film scared me more a s a child, especially the bit where Adrienne Corri turns round.....WAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[helvis]

Here's another more obscure one 'Assault! Jack the Ripper' wether ol' Jack makes an appearance over in the suburbs of Tokyo in this 70's Pinku title i'm not sure!
Bôkô Kirisaki Jakku (1976)

[ChristineCB]

I never thought about Ripper and Samurai links. Hmmm... are we sure that Jack The Ripper Warner was actually in HG's time machine or could it have been a Kurosawa character in Jack Warner disguise? Hmmm... and maybe the London Bridge's appearance was confused with the Golden Gate's, hence the various Arizona ties?

I think we've got another LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY RIPPERS tale coming on...

[minigirl]

Originally Posted by penfold From the silent era we have The Lodger, which is based on the Belloc-Lowndes novel of the same name; SPOILER ALERT but changed the denouement (In the novel, the lodger is the ripper, in the film, he isn't) and The Ripper puts in an appearance in the Louise Brooks Pandora Box, where SPOILER ALERT she moves from Berlin via the South of Franceto become a victim in the London fog.....

which, in the us, was called "the case of jonathon drew"

and the remake of "the lodger" made in 1932 (us title "the phantom friend") which also starred ivor novello but was directed by maurice elvey rather than hitchcock.