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Murder by Decree

Horror movie by Bob Clark from 1979.
 
 

Murder by Decree

Canada Great Britain, 1979, 124min
Director: Bob Clark

Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark, Anthony Quayle, John Gielgud, Frank Finlay, Donald Sutherland, Geneviève Bujold, Chris

In the autumn of 1888 shocked not only London but the entire Uk series of brutal murders that happened in the london slums of the East End. In the range of a few weeks – from 31. August to 9. November – it was in the dark winding streets Whitechapellu murdered five prostitutes. With the exception of the last one, which was only twenty-five years. All the women were around forty and their body was an incredible way mutilated.The police investigation did not give me any desirable results – indeed, it is not surprising, because in addition to the same "crafts" the victims had nothing in common and all the murders were seemingly totally without motive. And so it is understandable that people's imagination soon created the character of a homicidal maniac, whom she called Jack the Ripper. Belongs to ironiím fate, that this of the bloodiest chapters in the history of criminology has remained to this day shrouded in a veil of mystery. And perhaps that is why, from its first moments to the present has become only a source of various conjecture and hypotheses.According to this bloody history, a number of works which attempt to that an ancient mystery solved. The prevailing torque of most of them is the hypothesis that the offender was traced, but for strings, which it connected with the highest circles of the country, could not be revealed.The authors of the film story, a filmed based on the novel by John Lloyd and Elvyna Jones the Case of the Ripper, borrowed perhaps the most famous detective duo of all time – Sherlock Holmes and his trusty dr. Watson. And because Sherlock Holmes is known never weren't losing the war, it is clear that he solved the mystery of Jack Rozpracovače...
Budget: $4,500,000
Genre: Horror Mystery Thriller

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Rating by horrory.cz: 79 %
Rating by imdb.com: 70 %

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