http://www.horror-wood.com/ripper.htmIt is quite difficult to find information on films and books on Jack the Ripper in regards to them finding real-life suspects. Many are fictional and therefore use created suspects, while some continue to use Jack the Ripper as a character and ignore the need for giving the killer an identity. Robert Blochs 1943 short story, 'Yours truly, Jack the Ripper' uses the Ripper as a character who uses the killings of humans to strengthen his powers of immortality and therefore does not recognise him as an actual real-life suspect. The film 'Jack the Ripper' was released in 1959 but is an example of a film which uses none of the actual people involved, be it characters, victims or detectives.
The website at the top of this post includes information about many of the films and programmes made regarding Jack the Ripper. The 1926 silent film, The Lodger was based on a magazine from 1911 and involved a few of the suspects such as Francis Tumblety and G. Wentworth Bell Smith. In 'Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde,' a 1971 film from Hammer Films, we saw the famous Dr. Jekyll accused of the ripper murders. Another fictional character who appears in many of the Ripper fictional stories is Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and one of these, the 1979 'Murder By Decree' involves their search for a murderer who bares a resemblance to the circumstances involved in searching for the Royal Family close friend, Walter Sickert, a real-life suspect. Many television shows and documentaries tend to be more factual and attempt to target real-life suspects, a television show hosted by Peter Usminov, blamed the polish jew Aaron Kosminski, while the 2000 documentary Jack The Ripper: An On-Going Mystery states the opinion that even if we did find the killer, we probably wouldn't want to end a mystery which has fascinated us for over a century.
No comments:
Post a Comment