A landlady (Sara Allgood) and her husband Robert Bonting (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke) suspect new lodger (Laird Cregar) is Jack the Ripper. Cregar stars a man who checks into a boardinghouse and becomes the object of scrutiny when a series of murders plague the area . As in the Whitechapel slum , a hulking figure prowls in the obscurity , a woman's screams , while the camera stares blindly into a dark hole in the wall . Probing eyes that marked the woman he loved for death! The Story of Jack the Ripper .Terror...To freeze Your Heart ! Romance ...To Warm it! Fascinating beauty ...that marked her for Death ¡
Nice thriller remains a timeless piece on surprise , showcasing the unique visual and stylistic tricks that would mark John Brahm's work . Tense film about murders with thrills , chills , suspense and an amazing final . This intriguing and exciting story is based on a novel from Marie Belloc Lowndes and attractive script by Barre Lyndon , dealing with a serial killer -Jack the Ripper- in London executing his some grisly killings . One of the great evocations of that strange lost city of Hollywood imagination , the fogbound London of Jack the Ripper . Laird Cregar gives an awesome , remarkable portrayal of perverted sexuality and a psychologically unstable man , at once oddly stirring and horrific .This is a thrilling story about astonishing murders in Whitechapel whose elusive killer results to be the famous Jack the Ripper , it has two converging plot lines between Merle Oberon's spectacular musical numbers and Laird Cregar's wanderings . Story's core is interesting and storylne is dense with information and drama . Good performance by the gorgeous Merle Oberon , the always perfect George Sanders , as well as approppriate acting from secondaries as Sara Allgood and Cedric Hardwicke. Stunningly photographed by Lucien Ballard and adequate musical score Hugo Friedhofer . This is one of the rate movies in which everything pulls together to create a weirdly compulsive atmosphere . The motion picture was compellingly directed by John Brahm . He directed a few but good films , such as : Undying monster , Wintertime , Guest in the House , Singapore , Miracle of our Lady of Fatima , Face to Face , among others.
The Jack the Ripper character has been adapted on several occasions for cinema and television from the silent as ¨Pandora's box (1929) ¨ , multiple versions of ¨Lulu¨ a prostitute killed by Jack , ¨Murder by Decree¨ (1979) by Bob Clark with Christopher Plummer, James Mason , Anthony Quayle , John Gielgud , Susan Clark , ¨From hell (2001)¨ by Albert Hughes with Johnny Depp , Heather Graham , Ian Holm and for TV in which appears as character in numerous series as ¨Jack the Ripper (1988)¨ played by Ray McNally and recently in ¨Sanctuary ¨ played by Christopher Heyerdahl , ¨The Lodger¨2009 David Ondaatje with Simon Baker , Alfred Molina , Hope Davis , and several others .
Nice thriller remains a timeless piece on surprise , showcasing the unique visual and stylistic tricks that would mark John Brahm's work . Tense film about murders with thrills , chills , suspense and an amazing final . This intriguing and exciting story is based on a novel from Marie Belloc Lowndes and attractive script by Barre Lyndon , dealing with a serial killer -Jack the Ripper- in London executing his some grisly killings . One of the great evocations of that strange lost city of Hollywood imagination , the fogbound London of Jack the Ripper . Laird Cregar gives an awesome , remarkable portrayal of perverted sexuality and a psychologically unstable man , at once oddly stirring and horrific .This is a thrilling story about astonishing murders in Whitechapel whose elusive killer results to be the famous Jack the Ripper , it has two converging plot lines between Merle Oberon's spectacular musical numbers and Laird Cregar's wanderings . Story's core is interesting and storylne is dense with information and drama . Good performance by the gorgeous Merle Oberon , the always perfect George Sanders , as well as approppriate acting from secondaries as Sara Allgood and Cedric Hardwicke. Stunningly photographed by Lucien Ballard and adequate musical score Hugo Friedhofer . This is one of the rate movies in which everything pulls together to create a weirdly compulsive atmosphere . The motion picture was compellingly directed by John Brahm . He directed a few but good films , such as : Undying monster , Wintertime , Guest in the House , Singapore , Miracle of our Lady of Fatima , Face to Face , among others.
The Jack the Ripper character has been adapted on several occasions for cinema and television from the silent as ¨Pandora's box (1929) ¨ , multiple versions of ¨Lulu¨ a prostitute killed by Jack , ¨Murder by Decree¨ (1979) by Bob Clark with Christopher Plummer, James Mason , Anthony Quayle , John Gielgud , Susan Clark , ¨From hell (2001)¨ by Albert Hughes with Johnny Depp , Heather Graham , Ian Holm and for TV in which appears as character in numerous series as ¨Jack the Ripper (1988)¨ played by Ray McNally and recently in ¨Sanctuary ¨ played by Christopher Heyerdahl , ¨The Lodger¨2009 David Ondaatje with Simon Baker , Alfred Molina , Hope Davis , and several others .