Jack the Ripper (1959)

Directed by

Monty Berman

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective hunts for a serial killer in Victorian London. The killer turns out to be a surgeon who murders prostitutes to avenge his son's death.

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What happens

Jack the Ripper is a 1959 film produced and directed by Monty Berman and Robert S. Baker. It is loosely based on Leonard Matters' theory that Jack the Ripper was an avenging doctor. The black-and-white film stars Lee Patterson and Eddie Byrne and co-stars Betty McDowall, John Le Mesurier, and Ewen Solon. It was released in England in 1959, and shown in the United States in 1960. The plot is a "whodunnit" with false leads and a denouement in which the least likely character, in this case "Sir David Rogers" played by Ewen Solon, is revealed as the culprit. As in Matters' book, The Mystery of Jack the Ripper, Solon's character murders prostitutes to avenge the death of his son. While Matters had the son dying from venereal disease, the film has him committing suicide upon learning that his lover is a prostitute. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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