Hands of the Ripper – 1971

A Hammer production presented by The Rank Organisation and distributed by Rank film Distributors Limited (UK) and Universal Pictures (USA)
Copyright MCMLXXl Hammer film Productions Limited – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 22864
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
Made at Pinewood Studios, London, England
Colour processed by Rank Film Laboratories 85 mins
Storyline
As an infant, Anna witnesses the brutal murder of her mother by her father, who is none other than Jack the Ripper. Years later, she is working for Mrs Golding, a fake medium, for whom she provides spirit voices during her ‘seances’. One of these sessions is attended by psychiatrist Dr John Pritchard and the outwardly respectable Member of Parliament Dysart, who has paid Mrs Golding for ‘other services’ to be provided that night by Anna. Pritchard later sees Dysart fleeing the house and, investigating, finds Mrs Golding impaled to a bedroom door and Anna in a state of shock. Convinced that Anna is mentally disturbed, he makes the mistake of taking her into his own home so that he can study her…..
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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
Art Director | Roy Stannard | 40 | 1931 | 1 Mar 2008 | 77 | 10 |
Assistant Director | Ariel Levy | 26 | 12 Mar 1944 | Living | 76 | 2 |
Construction Manager | Arthur Banks | 18 | ||||
Continuity | Gladys Goldsmith | 45 | 1926 | 1979 | 53 | 6 |
Directed by | Peter Sasdy | 35 | 27 May 1935 | Living | 85 | 6 |
Director of Photography | Kenneth Talbot, BSc | 50 | 17 Jan 1920 | 1 May 1993 | 73 | 9 |
Dubbing Mixer | Ken Barker (2) | 53 | 1918 | 13 Feb 2001 | 83 | 10 |
Editor | Chris Barnes | 33 | 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 |
From an original story by | Edward Spencer Shaw | 1 | ||||
Hairdressing Supervisor | Pat McDermot | 41 | 1930 | 2015 | 85 | 5 |
Make-up Supervisor | Bunty Phillips | 1 | ||||
Music Composed by | Christopher Gunning | 26 | 5 Aug 1944 | Living | 76 | 3 |
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 63 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 103 |
Produced by | Aida Young | 50 | 11 Aug 1920 | 12 Aug 2007 | 87 | 7 |
Production Manager | Christopher Sutton | 39 | 1 Sep 1931 | Living | 89 | 1 |
Screenplay by | L.W. Davidson | 44 | 20 Oct 1926 | 17 Jun 1990 | 63 | 4 |
Sound Editor | Frank Goulding | 1991 | 3 | |||
Sound Recordist | Kevin Sutton | 1 | ||||
Special Effects | Cliff Culley | 43 | 1928 | Living | 93 | 2 |
Wardrobe Mistress | Eileen Sullivan | 36 | ||||
Wardrobe Supervisor | Rosemary Burrows | 36 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances |
1st Cell Whore | Anne Clune | 1 | ||||
1st Pub Whore | Katya Wyeth | 23 | 1 Jan 1948 | Living | 73 | 3 |
2nd Cell Whore | Vicki Woolf | 29 | 1942 | Living | 79 | 1 |
2nd Pub Whore | Beulah Hughes | 1 | ||||
3rd Pub Whore | Tallulah Miller | 1 | ||||
Anna | Angharad Rees | 26 | 16 Jul 1944 | 21 Jul 2012 | 68 | 1 |
Catherine | April Wilding | 29 | 4 Jan 1941 | 24 Aug 2003 | 62 | 1 |
Dolly | Marjie Lawrence | 38 | 21 Jan 1932 | 16 Jun 2010 | 78 | 1 |
Dr John Pritchard | Eric Porter | 42 | 8 Apr 1928 | 15 May 1995 | 67 | 2 |
Dysart | Derek Godfrey | 46 | 3 Jun 1924 | 18 Jun 1983 | 59 | 2 |
Guard | Charles Lamb | 70 | 20 Nov 1900 | 19 Mar 1989 | 88 | 4 |
Laura | Jane Merrow | 29 | 26 Aug 1941 | Living | 79 | 1 |
Long Liz | Lynda Baron | 31 | 24 Mar 1939 | Living | 81 | 1 |
Madame Bullard | Margaret Rawlings | 64 | 5 Jun 1906 | 19 May 1996 | 89 | 1 |
Maid | Molly Weir | 60 | 17 Mar 1910 | 28 Nov 2004 | 94 | 3 |
Michael | Keith Bell | 31 | 1940 | Living | 81 | 1 |
Mr Wilson | Barry Lowe | 46 | 1925 | 12 Dec 2011 | 86 | 5 |
Mrs Bryant | Marjorie Rhodes | 80 | 9 Apr 1890 | 4 Jul 1979 | 89 | 2 |
Mrs Golding (Guest Star) | Dora Bryan | 47 | 7 Feb 1923 | 23 Jul 2014 | 91 | 2 |
Mrs Wilson | Elizabeth Maclennan | 32 | 16 Mar 1938 | 23 Jun 2015 | 77 | 1 |
Pleasants | Peter Munt | 45 | 1926 | 7 Sep 2011 | 85 | 1 |
Police Constable | Philip Ryan | 1 | ||||
Police Inspector | Norman Bird | 46 | 30 Oct 1924 | 22 Apr 2005 | 80 | 5 |
Reverend Anderson | Alfred Brown | 73 | 14 Sep 1897 | 29 Jan 1978 | 80 | 1 |
Footnotes
Between Hammer’s “The Lost Continent” (1968) and this film, Eric Porter played probably his most famous role as Soames Forsyte in BBC TV’s classic serialisation of John Galsworthy’s “The Forsyte Saga”.
In the mid-eighties, he took the part of Professor Moriarty, arch-enemy of Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes, in Granada TV’s much acclaimed adaptations of Conan Doyle’s detective stories.
This was the last film to be produced for Hammer by Aida Young. She moved on to Associated London Films, where she produced “Steptoe and Son” (1972) and “Steptoe and Son Ride Again” (1973).
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection