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31/12/1953 Thriller, Crime, Horror 1h 22m
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The Life...The Loves...The Crimes of Jack the Ripper!

Overview

London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?

  1. Hugo Fregonese

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Jack Palance

    Slade

  2. Constance Smith

    Lily Bonner

  3. Byron Palmer

    Insp. Paul Warwick

  4. Frances Bavier

    Helen Harley

  5. Rhys Williams

    William Harley

  6. Sean McClory

    Constable #1

  7. Leslie Bradley

    Constable #2

  8. Tita Phillips

    Daisy (the maid)

  9. Lester Matthews

    Chief Insp. Melville

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-22
Jack Palance is "Slade", a curiously enigmatic stranger who takes rooms in the home of the "Harley" family. It's at the height of the paranoia in Victorian London surrounding the "Jack the Ripper" killings and as our story develops, both "Mrs. Harley" (Frances Bavier) and the audience begin to suspect that our reclusive visitor may well have a secret to keep. Those suspicions only intensify when he takes a shine to her actress niece "Lily" (Constance Smith) and we really do wonder if she is soon to be toast, too! Hugo Fregonese does manage to build a little menace into this: the dark eerie se...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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