Jack the Ripper (1976 film)

1976 film

Erwin C. Dietrich
Max Dora

StarringKlaus KinskiCinematography

Peter Baumgartner
Peter Spoerri

Edited byMarie-Luise Buschke

Production
company

Ascot Film

Distributed byAvis Filmverleih

Release date

23 September 1976 (1976-09-23)

Running time

92 minutesCountries

West Germany
Switzerland

LanguageGerman

Jack the Ripper (German: Der Dirnenmörder von London) is a 1976 Swiss-German thriller film directed by Jesús Franco and starring Klaus Kinski as Jack the Ripper.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Klaus Kinski as Dr. Dennis Orloff / Jack the Ripper
Josephine Chaplin as Cynthia
Andreas Mannkopff as Inspektor Selby
Herbert Fux as Charlie, the Fisherman
Lina Romay as Marika Stevenson
Nikola Weisse as Frieda
Ursula von Wiese as Miss Higgins (as Ursula v. Wiese)
Hans Gaugler as Mr. Bridger, the blind man
Francine Custer as Sally Brown, first victim
Olga Gebhard as Ms. Baxter
Angelika Arndts as Ms. Stevenson
Peter Nüsch as Sergeant Ruppert (as Peter Nuesch)
Esther Studer as Jeanny, second victim
Regine Elsener as Blondy
Lorli Bucher as Lulu
Mike Lederer as Coach Driver
Otto Dornbierer as Charlie's friend

References

^ Desowitz, Bill (2011). "New York Times: Jack the Ripper". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
^ "Jack the Ripper (1976 – German Blu-Ray Review)". Diabolique Magazine. Retrieved 6 May 2015.

External links

Jack the Ripper at IMDb

Films directed by Jesús Franco

Queen of the Tabarin Club (1960)
The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962)
The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
Lucky, the Inscrutable (1967)
Kiss Me Monster (1967)
Succubus (1968)
Eve (1968)
The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
99 Women (1969)
The Girl from Rio (1969)
The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)
Venus in Furs (1969)
The Bloody Judge (1969)
Count Dracula (1969)
Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970)
Vampyros Lesbos (1970)
She Killed in Ecstasy (1971)
The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)
A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1971)
Eugénie de Sade (1973)
The Bare Breasted Countess (1973)
Lorna the Exorcist (1974)
Barbed Wire Dolls (1975)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977)
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)
Women in Cellblock 9 (1977)
Devil Hunter (1980)
Mondo Cannibale (1980)
Bloody Moon (1981)
Sadomania (1981)
Mansion of the Living Dead (1982)
Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
Faceless (1988)

Jack the Ripper in fiction

Seminal works

The Lodger
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

Letters

Film

Waxworks (1924)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
Room to Let (1950)
Man in the Attic (1953)
Jack the Ripper (1959)
Lulu (1962)
A Study in Terror (1965)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
The Ruling Class (1972)
What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Time After Time (1979)
Jack's Back (1988)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Deadly Advice (1994)
Ripper (2001)
From Hell (2001)
Bad Karma (2002)
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
Ripper 2: Letter from Within (2004)
The Lodger (2009)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)

Parody

Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Music

"Jack the Ripper" (1963)
"The Ripper" (1976)
"Killer on the Loose" (1980)
The Somatic Defilement (2007)
Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter (2014)

Stage

Earth Spirit (1895 play)
Pandora's Box (1904 play)
Lulu (1937 opera)
The Lodger (1960 opera)
The Ruling Class (1968 play)

Comics

Blood of the Innocent (1985)
Gotham by Gaslight (1989)
From Hell (1989–98)
Wonder Woman: Amazonia (1997)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century (2009)

Literature

Sherlock Holmes	The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) The Whitechapel Horrors (1992) Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2005) Dust and Shadow (2009) The Ripper Legacy (2016)
Short stories	"A Toy for Juliette" (1967) "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" (1967)
Other	A Feast Unknown (1969) Time After Time (1979) Night of the Ripper (1984) Phantom Blood (1987) Naomi's Room (1991) Anno Dracula (1992) A Night in the Lonesome October (1993) Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend (1996) Matrix (1998) Lost (2001) Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed (2002) Blood and Fog (2003) The Witches of Chiswick (2003) Broken (2006) Darkside (2007) Lifeblood (2007) Dracula the Un-dead (2009) I, Ripper (2015) The Cutthroat (2017)

Television

Series	Jack the Ripper (1973) Jack the Ripper (1988) Sanctuary (2007–11) Whitechapel (2009–13) Ripper Street (2012–17) Time After Time (2017) Case File nº221: Kabukicho (2019–20) Sherlock in Russia (2020) Beforeigners (2019–present)
Episodes	"Wolf in the Fold" (1967) "Comes the Inquisitor" (1995) "Ripper" (1999) "Sanctuary for All" (2008) "The Great British Fake Off" (2020)
Other	Bridge Across Time (1985 TV film)