List of Ripper movies

[belinda]

I just borrowed my mothers DVD box set of the old "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" series. I loved that series when I was growing up and Darren Mcgavin was great. There is one episode in that series called "The Ripper" in which Jack is apparently immortal and now (I mean then) in 1970's Chicago.

I love Kolchak That's a great episode

[BillyE]

For those of you interested I found out the Spiderman episode featuring JtR was never produced, just was planned for in case there was another season, which there wasn't.

[Mayerling]

HI HO Mayerling, Would that by any chance be the TV show Cimmaron City

Hi Gizmo,

CIMMARON CITY was something I never heard of, but it too was a Western that appeared on American television in 1958, starring George Montgomery (the husband of Dinah Shore at one time), Audrey Totter, and John Smith.
Jason Robarts Sr. (not Jr.) appeared on some episodes. But it was made a decade before CIMMARON STRIP, and it was (like CIMMARON STRIP) a failure, only lasting one year.

Thanks for bringing the series to my attention.

Jeff

[GRISTLE]

I just borrowed my mothers DVD box set of the old "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" series. I loved that series when I was growing up and Darren Mcgavin was great. There is one episode in that series called "The Ripper" in which Jack is apparently immortal and now (I mean then) in 1970's Chicago.

[sdreid]

Hi Giz,

I thought the same thing at first but, no, they are two different shows. CITY was one of my favorite programs back in the 50s but I don't recall ever seeing STRIP.

[gizmo]

I was just checking IMDb. The 1968 episode of CIMMERON STRIP was called
"Knife In The Darkness" and was written by Harlan Ellison (which explains the rather perfection in the time, place and setting - and some other details he included). Tom Skerritt was in the episode, by the way. I was wrong about the wagon train (it's been a long time since I saw it), but it was set in the town where Stuart Whiteman is the Marshall.

HI HO Mayerling, Would that by any chance be the TV show Cimmaron City

[BillyE]

My list is nearing completion (as complete as I can make it), but I am running into a brick wall on one tv episode. Apparently there was an episode of the Mtv Spiderman animated series featuring JtR that was unaired. Does anyone know about this? I need the title of the episode and year it was produced. Thanks.

[needler]

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Cheers and thanks. The movies are high on my list of favorite things and some of these really are collectible. They're also great fun at WS meetings or conferences.

Cheers,

Judy
needler@ntelos.net

[sdreid]

Hi Billy,

There were 3 or 4 movies planned but I don't know if any were completed. There's a version of The Lodger due out this year but I think it's a modernized version and not really JtR.

[BillyE]

I'm having difficulty finding Ripper movies after the 2001 "From Hell" film. Does anyone know of the movies made after that one?

[BillyE]

Thanks, Mayerling. I had included "Cimarron Strip" in my list, but not the "The Brighton Strangler", so I'll read up on it and likely include it. Thanks for letting me know about it.

[Mayerling]

Cimmeron Strip episode.

I was just checking IMDb. The 1968 episode of CIMMERON STRIP was called
"Knife In The Darkness" and was written by Harlan Ellison (which explains the rather perfection in the time, place and setting - and some other details he included). Tom Skerritt was in the episode, by the way. I was wrong about the wagon train (it's been a long time since I saw it), but it was set in the town where Stuart Whiteman is the Marshall.

[Mayerling]

Hi Billy,

In looking over my writings on the IMDb movie website, I found another "Ripper Clone" type film - again it depends how far afield you are going. The movie (with John Loder) THE BRIGHTON STRANGLER about an actor playing the role of an infamous uncaught murderer in a play (who in the course of the film picks up the bad habit of his character). Like THE WRONG BOX's "Bournemouth Strangler" it is suggestive of the Ripper's reputation more than his/her actual method.

Closer to home is the television western series CIMMERON STRIP, which had an episode dominated by the Ripper. Stuart Whitman was the star of this short lived western series. In the episode Whitman is leading a wagon train and several murders occur. Keep in mind the settlement of Oklahoma really got underway in 1889 (the year of the famous "Oklahoma Land Rush"), so after the second murder occurs one of the wagon train (an English reporter) says that the hideous mutilations suggest that Jack the Ripper is on the wagon train. Whitman keeps trying to find the Ripper, and gradually narrows his focus unto one man.

SPOILER AHEAD:

The episode ends with that man (who is guilty of the wagon train murders, and may have been the Ripper) meeting a kind of just deserts: one of his victims was a local Indian tribe girl, and her people are not unwilling to use methods taught to them by the white men.


Best wishes,

Jeff

[BillyE]

Well, now you all have done it! Now I'm making a second list of films and tv shows using the Ripper as a secondary plot device. Ohhhh me and my lists! Anyway, I am almost done and will be posting both lists soon.

[Magpie]

I hope you won't omit that oft-neglected classic "What The Swedish Butler Saw"