Top billed cast

1. 

   Merle Oberon

   Kitty Langley

2. 

   Laird Cregar

   Mr. Slade

3. 

   George Sanders

   Inspector John Warwick

4. 

   Cedric Hardwicke

   Robert Bonting

5. 

   Sara Allgood

   Ellen Bonting

6. 

   Aubrey Mather

   Superintendent Sutherland

7. 

   Queenie Leonard

   Daisy the Maid

8. 

   Doris Lloyd

   Jennie

9. 

   David Clyde

   Det. Sgt. Bates

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2019-07-19

Your beauty is exquisite.

Victorian London, Whitechapple, and some maniac is slaughtering women with stage backgrounds. Could it be that the mysterious Mr. Slade who has rented the upstairs rooms from Mrs Burton, is the man known as Jack the Ripper? This part of London is cloaked in fog, the cobbled streets damp and bearing witness to unspeakable crimes, the gas lights dimly flicker as the British Bobby searches in vain for Bloody Jack.

The scene is set for what is to me the finest adaptation to deal with the notorious murderer, Jack the Ripper. A remake of the Alfred Hitchcock silent f...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$800,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

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