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 Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Art Director | Roy Stannard | 40 | 1931 | Mar 2008 | 77 | 10 | 10 | ||
Ast. Director | Ariel Levy | 27 | 12 Mar 1944 | 79 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
Construction Manager | Arthur Banks | 18 | 29 | 47 | |||||
Continuity | Gladys Goldsmith | 45 | 1926 | 1979 | 52 | 6 | 6 | ||
Director | Peter Sasdy | 36 | 27 May 1935 | 88 | 6 | 6 | |||
Director of Photog. | Kenneth Talbot BSc | 51 | 17 Jan 1920 | May 1993 | 73 | 9 | 9 | ||
Dubbing Mixer | Ken Barker | 53 | 1 Jan 1918 | 13 Feb 2001 | 83 | 10 | 10 | ||
Editor | Chris Barnes | 33 | 1 Jan 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 | 12 | 33 | |
Hairdressing S/visor | Pat McDermot | 41 | 1930 | 2015 | 84 | 5 | 5 | ||
Make-up Supervisor | Bunty Phillips | 1993 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Music Composer | Christopher Gunning | 27 | 5 Aug 1944 | 25 Mar 2023 | 78 | 3 | 3 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 64 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Original Story | Edward Shaw | 62 | 9 Nov 1908 | 11 Feb 1977 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Producer | Aida Young | 51 | 11 Aug 1920 | 12 Aug 2007 | 87 | 8 | 6 | 14 | |
Production Manager | Christopher Sutton | 40 | 1 Sep 1931 | 91 | 7 | 7 | |||
Screenplay | L.W. Davidson | 44 | 20 Oct 1926 | 17 Jun 1990 | 63 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Editor | Frank Goulding | 1991 | 4 | 4 | |||||
Sound Recordist | Kevin Sutton | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Special Effects | Cliff Culley | 43 | 1 Jan 1928 | 95 | 1 | 1 | |||
Wardrobe Mistress | Eileen Sullivan | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Wardrobe Supervisor | Rosemary Burrows | 36 | 5 | 41 | |||||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Camera Operator | Bob Kindred | 48 | 2 May 1923 | Dec 1981 | 58 | 1 | 1 | ||
Re-Recording Mixer | Graham V. Hartstone | 27 | 1 Jun 1944 | 79 | 6 | 6 | |||
Re-Recording Mixer | Otto Snel | 33 | 7 Dec 1937 | 85 | 11 | 4 | 15 | ||
Special Make-up | Roy Ashton | 62 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | 4 | 40 | |
Stunts | Peter Diamond | 42 | 10 Aug 1929 | 27 Mar 2004 | 74 | 4 | 23 | 27 | |
Unit Publicist | Tony Tweedale | 34 | 13 Jun 1937 | 86 | 2 | 2 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
1st Cell Whore | Anne Clune | 37 | 11 Jan 1934 | 1994 | 60 | 1 | 1 | ||
1st Pub Whore | Katya Wyeth | 23 | 1 Jan 1948 | 75 | 3 | 3 | |||
2nd Cell Whore | Vicki Woolf | 29 | 1942 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
2nd Pub Whore | Beulah Hughes | 30 Jun 2013 | 1 | 1 | |||||
3rd Pub Whore | Tallulah Miller | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Anna | Angharad Rees | 27 | 16 Jul 1944 | 21 Jul 2012 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Catherine | April Wilding | 30 | 4 Jan 1941 | 24 Aug 2003 | 62 | 1 | 1 | ||
Dolly | Marjie Lawrence | 39 | 21 Jan 1932 | 16 Jun 2010 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Dr John Pritchard | Eric Porter | 43 | 8 Apr 1928 | 15 May 1995 | 67 | 2 | 2 | ||
Dysart | Derek Godfrey | 47 | 3 Jun 1924 | 18 Jun 1983 | 59 | 2 | 2 | ||
Guard | Charles Lamb | 70 | 20 Nov 1900 | 19 Mar 1989 | 88 | 4 | 4 | ||
Laura | Jane Merrow | 30 | 26 Aug 1941 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Long Liz | Lynda Baron | 32 | 24 Mar 1939 | 5 Mar 2022 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
Madame Bullard | Margaret Rawlings | 65 | 5 Jun 1906 | 19 May 1996 | 89 | 1 | 1 | ||
Maid | Molly Weir | 61 | 17 Mar 1910 | 28 Nov 2004 | 94 | 3 | 3 | ||
Michael | Keith Bell | 31 | 1 Jan 1940 | 83 | 1 | 1 | |||
Mr Wilson | Barry Lowe | 46 | 1 Jan 1925 | 12 Dec 2011 | 86 | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
Mrs Bryant | Marjorie Rhodes | 74 | 8 Apr 1897 | 4 Jul 1979 | 82 | 2 | 2 | ||
Mrs Golding | Dora Bryan | 48 | 7 Feb 1923 | 23 Jul 2014 | 91 | 2 | 2 | ||
Mrs Wilson | Elisabeth MacLennan | 33 | 16 Mar 1938 | 23 Jun 2015 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Pleasants | Peter Munt | 45 | 1 Jan 1926 | 7 Sep 2011 | 85 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Police Constable | Philip Ryan | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Police Inspector | Norman Bird | 46 | 30 Oct 1924 | 22 Apr 2005 | 80 | 5 | 5 | ||
Reverend Anderson | Alfred Brown | 74 | 14 Sep 1897 | 29 Jan 1978 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
3rd Cell Whore | Josie Grant | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Beggar | Dido Plumb | 66 | 23 Jun 1905 | 4 Mar 1991 | 85 | 10 | 10 | ||
Diner in Restaurant | Lewis Alexander | 61 | 27 Aug 1910 | 23 Oct 2010 | 100 | 3 | 3 | ||
Jack the Ripper | Danny Lyons | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Jailed Prisoner | Maxwell Craig | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Lady at Train Station | Pauline Chamberlain | 39 | 2 Oct 1932 | 14 Jan 2021 | 88 | 5 | 5 | ||
Seamstress | Ann Way | 55 | 14 Nov 1915 | 13 Mar 1993 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Young Anna | Nadine Stapleton | 1 | 1 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 25 January 1971 | |
UK RELEASE | 17 October 1971 | |
STUDIO | Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England | |
LOCATION | St Paul's Cathedral, London, England |
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