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5.5/10 • 47

1953-12-231h 22m

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The Life...The Loves...The Crimes of Jack the Ripper!

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?

Directors
Hugo Fregonese
Editors
Marjorie Fowler

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  1. Jack Palance

    Jack Palance

    Slade

  2. Constance Smith

    Constance Smith

    Lily Bonner

  3. Byron Palmer

    Byron Palmer

    Insp. Paul Warwick

  4. Frances Bavier

    Frances Bavier

    Helen Harley

  5. Rhys Williams

    Rhys Williams

    William Harley

  6. Sean McClory

    Sean McClory

    Constable #1

  7. Leslie Bradley

    Leslie Bradley

    Constable #2

  8. Tita Phillips

    Tita Phillips

    Daisy (the maid)

  9. Lester Matthews

    Lester Matthews

    Chief Insp. Melville

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CinemaSerf

Jun 22, 2022

6/10

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 settings, the foggy London scenes all add a richness to the drama. Palance, however, is as wooden as a picket fence; he brings very little to his part. Indeed, aside from an amiable few scenes from Rhys Williams as "Harley", the acting is all a bit dry and stagey and that drags the whole thing down rather. It is still quite watchable, though, but with a better actor in the lead it could have been much more intriguing and I think I preferred "The Lodger" (1944).

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Status
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Original Language
English
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Keywords
london, englandbased on novel or bookjack the rippervictorian englandserial killer