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Jack the Ripper (1988)

 During the latter half of 1888 a notorious serial killer nicknamed Jack The Ripper terrorises the East End of London by murdering prostitutes in a terribly violent way. Public outrage follows. Inspector Frederick Abberline is assigned to the case but finds that it is not just a simple murder enquiry. Based on a real life event, this film claims to have had access to top secret Home Office files and believe that their ending is the correct solution to the age old mystery.

Directed by:
David Wickes
Cast:
Michael Caine .... Chief Insp. Frederick Abberline
Armand Assante .... Richard Mansfield
Ray McAnally .... Sir William Gull
Lewis Collins .... Sgt. George Godley
Ken Bones .... Robert James Lees

IMDB

User Rating: 7.4/10 (476 votes)







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*notes:
The main extra accompanying the feature is an Audio Commentary from researcher Sue Davis and director David Wickes moderated by author Jonathan Soskott. None of the three are particularly animated so it?s not the most engaging commentary ever put on a DVD but the trio do manage to fill all three hours of the film with an awful lot of information. Be warned, the ending to the film is given away inside 10 minutes of the commentary! Davis spent four years gathering information for the project and it clearly shows here as she and Wickes run through many scenarios that have been touted as the ?definitive? treatment of available evidence that were discounted Alarmingly it transpires that a lot of evidence has been deliberately destroyed over the years and suspicion still lingers due to the 100 year embargo placed on the files relating to the case. To be frank, not a lot of the commentary concentrates on the events on screen but it?s an ideal dissection of many aspects open to debate which were unable to be squeezed into the film itself. If you?re at all interested in the story of the Ripper you could save yourself a lot of time reading obsolete books by heading straight to this encyclopaedic feature.

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Jack.the.Ripper.(1988).MBCD2000-XViD-CD1.avi
Jack.the.Ripper.(1988).MBCD2000-XViD-CD2.avi
commentary tracks:
Jack.the.Ripper.(1988).MBCD2000-XViD-CD1-CommentaryTrack.mp3
Jack.the.Ripper.(1988).MBCD2000-XViD-CD2-CommentaryTrack.mp3
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