Hands of the Ripper
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| Hands of the Ripper | |
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| 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 |
| Distributed by | Hammer Film Productions |
| Release date(s) | 1971 (UK) |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Language | English |
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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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