Jack the Ripper
(1988)
★ 7 IMDb · 118 votes
Year: 1988
Country: United States of America, United Kingdom
Director: Derek Marlowe, David Wickes
Cast: Майкл Кейн, Джейн Сеймур, Lewis Collins, Арманд Ассанте, Лизетт Энтони, Michael Gothard, T. P. McKenna, Richard Morant, Кристофер Фулфорд, Гарри Эндрюс
Plot
Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders.
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. Chief 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 movie 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.