mysteriesofedgarwallace

If anyone could help with a copy of this, please.
IIRC it has not been shown since Ch4 showed it circa mid 80's.


I think it was Ch4...........

smudge

I have a copy somewhere....

(You know me, Mysteries !)

SMUDGE

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summerisle

It was C4 as the copy I have has the logo at the start.

summerisle

the one i got was fine. bought it as a buy it now for £9 and saw it later that same week go for about £30 on auction!!

mysteriesofedgarwallace

Just seeing this thread bumped, brought back lots of memories.

So, you see, I'm not mad. (Well not completely anyway)

Must have been around 1986?

Freddy

While just looking through IMDb came across details of the director for this Norman Cohen who went on to direct some of the 70's sex comedy films "Confessions of....." His last film was Burning Rubber, made in 1981 it was a German film which, looking at the cast involved members of the Bay City Rollers. Was this a promo type film?
Sadly two years later he died at the young age of 47.

Freddy

The world wags on.

Iain1962

Hi my name's Iain and I've just joined the forum. I've contributed a couple of reviews to the website already (Assignment Redhead and Play It Cool) and have others planned (including The Brain Machine, 6-6 Special and Cosh Boy) and I run a horror and sci-fi review site called Chroma-Noize which features some UK titles. Anyway I digress. Regarding The London Nobody Knows, I actually caught this in a cinema back in the 70s and on Channel 4. More importantly I used to work for a guy who was a production assistant on the film. His name was Tom Busby, a Canadian actor best known for appearances in The Dirty Dozen, The Victors and The War Lovers. At the time Busby was trying to obtain his ACCT union card (apparently a very difficult thing to achieve back in the 60s) and was basically a flunky on the production (did he even receive credit for his work?). He told me that among his jobs was to ply the down and outs who fight in the film with whisky to achieve the desired results. I was particularly fascinated by the references to Jack the Ripper (a personal interest of mine) and the fact that some of the locations linked with the crimes were still visible as late as 1967.

Busby later became a casting director (including work on John Cassavetes' Husbands) and the British agent for Zsa Zsa Gabor. When I met him at the end of the 1980s he was heading a media unit in Glasgow for Community Service Volunteers. Before that he'd directed TV commercials and dramas along with a variety of filmed inserts for Channel 4.

This is probably going some way off-topic but I thought someone might find it interesting.

Cheers.

Iain

Steve Crook

Most of them are still visible today, if you know where to look.
A few of the streets have been renamed. Some of the buildings have been renamed, a few have been replaced.

There are regular location tours and there are some good "then & now" pictures at Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Main

Steve

Steve Crook

His IMDb entry claims he was an associate producer. That might be a slight exaggeration

Steve

Freddy

Iain1962 might have already seen this but there is a book out recently called 'Uncle Jack' with another new theory on the ripper.

book review


publishers


Published by Orion books they seem to have it classified under fiction(is there a librarian in the house) but there you go.

Freddy

The world wags on.

Iain1962

Hi there.

Associate Producer seems about right. At the time apparently the easiest way to get an ACTT ticket was by becoming a producer, especially if moving from another branch of the industry such as acting.

Cheers.

Iain

Iain1962

Hi there.

Many thanks for the link - fasincating stuff. In recent years I've lost track of the amout of Ripper-related material that's on the market - it seems to have really got out of control in the last ten years or so to the extent that most of the stuff I've read dealing with the subject have been book reviews rather than the books themselves.

I did read some of the pronouncements made by Patricia Cornwell about the case and what surprised me was her assumption that nobody else in the world had ever considered Walter Sickert as a suspect. Surely he was considered a possible candidate at least as far back as the early 1960s?

I loved the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell which covere nearly all the angles of the case. The film was technically marvellous but I still wasn't impressed it, particularly the representation of the lead detective character. Probably the best fictionlisation of the investigation is still Bob Clark's Murder by Decree. Does anyone remember the Barlow and Watt TV serial which inspired this? Also did anyone read Robert Bloch's NIght of the Ripper which had its own solution to the crimes?

Cheers.

Iain

Freddy

The author of Uncle Jack was on Richard and Judy a few months ago. He said that he had not set out to find the ripper but was going to write a biography of his famous relative, It was only when the Library of Wales gave him a box of his books and notes did he begin to suspect. Apparently the knife had blood on it but when he asked could he have it analyzed the Library said only if the police wanted to do it but as the ripper case is officially closed the police said no.
If that is the case I find it sad that a library which should have the pursuit of knowledge at the fore refuses such a request.

I saw the Patricia Cornwell programme and was disappointed with it, I thought she was trying to fit the evidence around her theory and my friend who like you is a ripper enthusiast thought her book was poor. The 'Murder by Decree' and 'Night of the Ripper' I will have to look at.

regards
Freddy

The world wags on.

barpy

Looking for "London nobody knows", video or dvd

chasdickens

I have been looking for this one too. AKA LONDON IN THE RAW. Amongst it's many topics, it has some very interesting but gory footage on early hair replacement surgery. Please let me know if you find it.
This is as far as I have got: LONDON IN THE RAW
I remember it was very contravercial in the 60's, but very tame by todays standards.