hand of the ripper aspect ratio represent 1 . 85 represent1sound format represent monoan edwardian doctor ( eric porter ) use newfangled freudian analysis on a young girl ( angharad rees ) who turn out to be the daughter of jack the ripper and and just a deadly . unlikely hammer horror and in which a respectable society figure take charge of a beautiful young waif without attract so much a a whiff of scandal and even when she take to murder all and sundry with a variety of lethal implement ( broken mirror and hat pin and etc . ) . l. w. davidson screenplay wanders aimlessly from one murder to another and sacrifice the material inherent subtext ( porter obvious attraction to rees ) in favor of commercial melodrama and and the tone remain subdue throughout . some of the gore scene be surprisingly vivid and even for hammer and and these be clip from the original u release ( despite an r rating from the mpaa ) and though the complete version be now available on home video . porter and rees give excellent performance and and the climax in st. paul cathedral be a definite highlight and but the rest of the film be strangely hollow and unaffecting . direct by peter sasdy .