Hands of the Ripper

Hands of the Ripper

Infobox Film | name = Hands of the Ripper


caption = Promotional movie poster for the film
director = Peter Sasdy
producer = Aida Young
writer = L.W. Davidson
Edward Spencer Shew
starring = Eric Porter
Angharad Rees
Jane Merrow
Keith Bell
Derek Godfrey
music = Christopher Gunning
cinematography = Kenneth Talbot
editing = Chris Barnes
distributor = Hammer Film Productions
released = 1971 (UK)
runtime = 85 min.
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:21394
imdb_id = 0067176

"Hands of the Ripper" is a 1971 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy for Hammer Film Productions.

It is set in London in Victorian times, and stars Angharad Rees as Anna, a vulnerable young woman who is exploited by her guardian (Dora Bryan), a medium, and haunted by the subconscious memory of her mother's murder by her father - Jack the Ripper. She is taken in by a Freudian psychiatrist (Eric Porter), who is determined to find out the cause of her by-now-murderous impulses.

The film also stars Jane Merrow, Keith Bell and Derek Godfrey. It was filmed at Pinewood Studios, with some location work at St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

Trivia

When the film was shown on American television, several excessively gory scenes were removed, and the film's running time was padded out with added scenes of a psychiatrist (played by Severn Darden) narrating the "fictional" events of the film to several reporters in 1945, purportedly to prove some theory about human behaviour.


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