Hands of the Ripper (Original title)
Dates: 1971 (Copyright), 25 January 1971 (Production), 01 October 1971 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Peter Sasdy
Synopsis: Berner Street, London. Jack the Ripper stabs his wife to death in the view of his young daughter Anna. Years later she grows up as the aid to a phony medium. When the medium is found impaled to a door with a poker, Dr Pritchard takes it upon himself to take the orphan in.
Genre: Horror
Subject: Jack the Ripper
Releases
Date: 1971not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 85 mins Length: 7650 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specifiedRuntime: 85 mins 09 secs - Distributor: BFIPlayer
Dates: 1971 (Copyright), 25 January 1971 (Production), 01 October 1971 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Peter Sasdy
Synopsis: Berner Street, London. Jack the Ripper stabs his wife to death in the view of his young daughter Anna. Years later she grows up as the aid to a phony medium. When the medium is found impaled to a door with a poker, Dr Pritchard takes it upon himself to take the orphan in.
Genre: Horror
Subject: Jack the Ripper
Releases
Date: 1971not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 85 mins Length: 7650 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specifiedRuntime: 85 mins 09 secs - Distributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
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©: Hammer Film Productions, Presents: The Rank Organisation, a Hammer production: Hammer Film Productions, Distributed by: Rank Film Distributors, Produced by: Aida Young, Production Manager: Christopher Sutton, Assistant Director: Ariel Levy, Continuity: Gladys Goldsmith, Screenplay by: L.W. Davidson, From an original story by: Edward Spencer Shew, Director of Photography: Kenneth Talbot, [Camera Operator]: Bob Kindred, Special Effects: Cliff Culley, Editor: Chris Barnes, Art Director: Roy Stannard, Construction Manager: Arthur Banks, Wardrobe Supervisor: Rosemary Burrows, Wardrobe Mistress: Eileen Sullivan, Make-up Supervisor: Bunty Phillips, Hairdressing Supervisor: Pat McDermott, Processed by: Rank Film Laboratories, Music Composed by: Christopher Gunning, Musical Supervisor: Philip Martell, Sound Recordist: Kevin Sutton, Dubbing Mixer: Ken Barker, Sound Editor: Frank Goulding, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast
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Eric Porter (Dr. John Pritchard), Jane Merrow (Laura), Derek Godfrey (Dysart), Angharad Rees (Anna), Marjorie Rhodes (Mrs. Bryant), Keith Bell (Michael Pritchard), Margaret Rawlings (Madame Bullard), Lynda Baron (Long Liz), Marjie Lawrence (Dolly), Norman Bird (police inspector), Elizabeth MacLennan (Mrs. Wilson), A.J. Brown (Reverend Anderson), Barry Lowe (Mr. Wilson), Dora Bryan (Mrs. Golding), April Wilding (Catherine), Anne Clune (1st cell whore), Vicki Woolf (2nd cell whore), Katya Wyeth (1st pub whore), Beulah Hughes (2nd pub whore), Tallulah Miller (3rd pub whore), Peter Munt (Pleasants), Philip Ryan (police constable), Molly Weir (maid), Charles Lamb (guard), Ann Way ([seamstress])