True Crime Movies

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First radio: The Lodger-1948

That would be the version on the CBS program Suspense starring Robert Montgomery.

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The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer (1993)

Jeffrey Dahmer (2002)

Raising Jeffrey Dahmer (2006)

There is also a film supposedly coming out this year called Dahmer vs. Gacy which looks like it could be a sort of black comedy. We'll have to see.

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Two of the movies focus directly on Dahmer and the other is told from the view of his father although the crimes are still covered pretty well.

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Hi Cuervo:

Yes, I have seen that one and the two other Dahmer movies. Too my knowledge, there are just three so far.

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Hi to everyone
I write for the first time in this thread.
I think the best movie about a real serial killer Iīve seen is Dahmer (about him, with Jeremy Renner). Renner is really great, he is the whole film and couldnīt be any better. And I was very glad to see a film about a serial killer where you donīt get the gorey thing or the criminal thing all the time but you could sense his personality and emotions as well.
Best

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I think it's the first thing I saw on screen regarding JtR.

That would be TV 1958

First radio: The Lodger-1948

First book: Rumbelow's-1976

First movie theater: From Hell 2001

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There is an ignored Ripper production entitled Final Curtain that ran as an episode of the old Mike Hammer TV series in 1958. In the presentation that I remember seeing, Jack is still at it here in the States as a nonagenarian theater hand. He has a memory thing for the old ballerina Anna Pavlova and dies in the end as I recall.

That's my best recollection at least. I think it's the first thing I saw on screen regarding JtR.

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There is an ignored Ripper production entitled Final Curtain that ran as an episode of the old Mike Hammer TV series in 1958. In the presentation that I remember seeing, Jack is still at it here in the States as a nonagenarian theater hand. He has a memory thing for the old ballerina Anna Pavlova and dies in the end as I recall.

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The oldest true crime film I've been able to find, perhaps stretching the definition a bit, is The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots from 1895 so 116 years for the genre.

Also, Burning of Joan of Arc came out the same year.

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It was Sarah Robinson Whitley who became the first film actor to die in 1888.

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If I remember correctly, one of the two women in Roundhay Garden died a couple of weeks after appearing the world's first movie. I'm not sure if there was any mystery about her death. She seemed healthy enough in the 1888 film.

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Yes, the series was a little jumpy because each lens viewed the subject from a slightly different angle. This wasn't that noticeable if the subject was far enough away.

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Roundhay is the first movie as we define it today. I believe Le Prince did make a motion picture before it that is generally called - a man walking around a corner - which may have been made as early as 1887. This however was more akin too Muybridge's work except all the cameras were assembled into one box. Roundhay was shot with just one camera.

Hi Stan,

Agreed, while "Man walking around a corner" cannot be tied down to an exact date, it it clearly, from a technological point of view, earlier than either Roundhay or Leeds Bridge. It, was shot with a camera containing 16 separate lenses, each lense taking only one picture. So this is not really a "movie", but rather, 16 pictures taken by 16 different lenses in rapid succession. It was, never the less, a vital step step forward, towards his invention of the genuine, single lense movie camera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waajbbvAzYM&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWK-ImxF-e4&feature=related

Best Wishes,
Zodiac.

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Roundhay is the first movie as we define it today. I believe Le Prince did make a motion picture before it that is generally called - a man walking around a corner - which may have been made as early as 1887. This however was more akin too Muybridge's work except all the cameras were assembled into one box. Roundhay was shot with just one camera.

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Thanks Zodiac, those are all interesting.