Hands of the Ripper

Hands of the Ripper
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	Peter Sasdy
Produced by	Aida Young
Written by	L.W. Davidson Edward Spencer Shew
Starring	Eric Porter Angharad Rees Jane Merrow Keith Bell Derek Godfrey
Music by	Christopher Gunning
Cinematography	Kenneth Talbot
Editing by	Chris Barnes
Studio	Hammer Film Productions
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	1971 (UK)
Running time	85 min.
Language	English

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

Plot

It is set in London in Edwardian 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.

Production

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.

Cast

• Eric Porter as Dr. John Pritchard
• Angharad Rees as Anna
• Jane Merrow as Laura
• Keith Bell as Michael Pritchard
• Derek Godfrey as Mr. Dysart
• Dora Bryan as Mrs. "Granny" Golding
• Marjorie Rhodes as Mrs. Bryant
• Lynda Baron as Long Liz
• Marjie Lawrence as Dolly, the maid
• Margaret Rawlings as Madame Bullard
• Elizabeth MacLennan as Mrs. Wilson
• Barry Lowe as Mr. Wilson

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.

External links

• Hands of the Ripper at the Internet Movie Database
• Hands of the Ripper at AllRovi