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Jack the Ripper

  • 19761976
  • RR
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
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Jack the Ripper (1976)
CrimeDramaHorror
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
1.7K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
22,189
275
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    • Director
      • Jesús Franco
    • Writers
      • Jesús Franco(screenplay)
      • Jean-Claude Carrière(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Klaus Kinski
      • Josephine Chaplin
      • Herbert Fux
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Jesús Franco
    • Writers
      • Jesús Franco(screenplay)
      • Jean-Claude Carrière(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Klaus Kinski
      • Josephine Chaplin
      • Herbert Fux
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    • 38User reviews
    • 34Critic reviews
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    Jack the Ripper (1976)
    Olga Gebhard in Jack the Ripper (1976)
    Angelika Arndts in Jack the Ripper (1976)
    Josephine Chaplin in Jack the Ripper (1976)
    Walter Baumgartner in Jack the Ripper (1976)
    Peter Nüsch in Jack the Ripper (1976)
    Ursula von Wiese in Jack the Ripper (1976)
    Olga Gebhard in Jack the Ripper (1976)
    Nikola Weisse in Jack the Ripper (1976)
    Klaus Kinski in Jack the Ripper (1976)
    Lina Romay in Jack the Ripper (1976)
    Klaus Kinski in Jack the Ripper (1976)

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    Klaus Kinski
    Klaus Kinski
    • Dr. Dennis Orloff
    Josephine Chaplin
    Josephine Chaplin
    • Cynthia
    Herbert Fux
    Herbert Fux
    • Charlie the Fisherman
    Lina Romay
    Lina Romay
    • Marika Stevenson
    Nikola Weisse
    • Frieda
    Ursula von Wiese
    • Miss Higgins
    • (as Ursula v. Wiese)
    Hans Gaugler
    Hans Gaugler
    • John Bridger the Blind
    Francine Custer
    • Sally Brown
    Olga Gebhard
    • Mrs. Baxter
    Angelika Arndts
    • Mrs. Stevenson Brown
    Peter Nüsch
    • Sergeant Ruppert
    • (as Peter Nuesch)
    Regine Elsener
    • Blonde Girl at Inquest
    Esther Studer
    • Jeanny
    Lorli Bucher
    • Miss Lulu
    Mike Lederer
    • Coach Driver
    Otto Dornbierer
    • Charlie's Fishing Friend
    Andreas Mannkopff
    • Inspector Selby
    Walter Baumgartner
    • Piano Player
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jesús Franco
    • Writers
      • Jesús Franco(screenplay)
      • Jean-Claude Carrière(screenplay) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      Dr. Orloff's servant is named Frieda in the German version, but Flora in the International English version; also, Miss Lulu in the German version, becomes Maggy in the English version. The film was shot without sound, that was subsequently added for both versions.
    • Goofs
      The royal coat of arms shown outside Scotland Yard bears the letters ER - presumably for the current Queen: Elizabeth Regina. In 1888 when Jack the Ripper was loose Victoria was on the throne and the letters would have been VR: Victoria Regina.
    • Quotes

      Mr. Bridger, the Blind Man: The murderer smelled of several familiar odours; expensive soap. sweat, and very fine woolen clothes and mild Turkish tobacco and also an odour, Inspector, that you could recognise with much ease, I think: alcohol.

      Inspector Selby: Yes, of course. You smell of it.

      Mr. Bridger, the Blind Man: Oh, but that's an easy one. What I detected was a medicinal alcohol and then a real surprise; I also caught a whiff of a rare, medicinal plant of India. It transported me back to the colonies. In England, it's found only in the Botanical Gardens. It is called Akmau.

    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: On Golden Pond, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Four Friends, Modern Problems (1982)
    • Soundtracks
      My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
      (uncredited)

      Scottish folk tune

      Performed by Francine Custer

    User reviews38

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    Top review
    Fiction diverges widely from fact in this horror thriller....
    OK, it is London, even Whitechapel. It is also Victorian England, and someone is killing whores in the night, they even call this killer Jack the Ripper...BUT and this is a massive but.... any semblance between the true killings and this story part company here, at light speed.

    Anyone looking for schlockey, semi graphic violence, nudity and gore need look no further. Anyone seeking a plot based on the close truth will be sorely disappointed. This slow moving (my version was dubbed to English) badly scripted (but that may be badly scripted dubbing) shows Klaus Kinsky, father of the delicious Nastasha Kinsky, slicing, dicing and raping whores in cohoots with a mysterious woman, and dumping their dismembered bodies in old Father Thames. In this amazing work a blind beggar not only has a keen set of senses, he knows much about the upper society and can identify many plants and perfumes by smell alone. And a local fisherman knows how long body parts have been rotting in the water, even if he can't read.

    Polly Nicholes, Mary Kelly and the other girls don't make an appearance, the bodies are not strewn about Whitechapel and Spittalfields but dumped in the river, and..well, as a bit of a Ripper bufff, I was left out in the foggy cold.
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    • edwinwnorth
    • Jun 22, 2001

    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 23, 1976 (West Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Switzerland
      • West Germany
      • Spain
    • Official site
      • filmo.ch
    • Languages
      • German
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Der Dirnenmörder von London
    • Filming locations
      • London, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Cinemec
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 27 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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