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Jack the Ripper |
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Jack the Ripper - 1959 | 84 mins | Mystery, Thriller | B&WThe Production TeamDirector: Robert S. Baker and Monty
Berman. Producer: Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman. Script: Jimmy Sangster. (from the story by Peter Hammond and Colin Craig) Cinematography: Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman. Editing: Peter Bezencenet. Art Direction: William Kellner. Makeup Department: Jimmy Evans and Bill Griffiths. Sound: Buster Ambler and Jeanne Henderson. |
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The CastLee Patterson - Sam Lowry Eddie Byrne - Inspector O'Neill Betty McDowall - Anne Ford Ewen Solon - Sir David Rogers John Le Mesurier - Dr. Tranter George Rose - Clarke Philip Leaver - Music Hall Manager Barbara Burke - Kitty Knowles Anne Sharp - Helen Denis Shaw - Simes Endre Muller - Louis Benz Esma Cannon - Nelly |
Plot SynopsisGruesome 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 |
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