Hands of the Ripper
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Hands of the Ripper is a 1971 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy for Hammer Film Productions.
It is set in London in Victorian 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.
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.
[edit] 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.
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| The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) | The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) | The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) | The Phantom of the Opera (1962) | The Kiss of the Vampire (1962) | The Devil-Ship Pirates (1963) | The Gorgon (1964) | Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966) | The Plague of the Zombies (1966) | The Reptile (1966) | The Witches (1966) | The Devil Rides Out (1967) | Hands of the Ripper (1971) | Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) | Countess Dracula (1971) | Vampire Circus (1972) | To the Devil a Daughter (1976) |
