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Room to Let

Room to Let

1950Movie⏱️ 1h 8m
CrimeDrama
⭐ 5.9
IMDB Rating
171 votes

In London in 1904, neighbours begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may in fact be the infamous Jack the Ripper.

Director
Godfrey Grayson
Writers
Margery Allingham, John Gilling, Godfrey Grayson
Stars
Jimmy Hanley, Anthony La Penna, Aubrey Dexter
Release Date
May 15, 1950
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Jimmy Hanley
Jimmy Hanley
as Curly Minter
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Anthony La Penna
as JJ
Aubrey Dexter
Aubrey Dexter
as Harding
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Reginald Dyson
as Sergeant Cranbourne
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Charles Mander
as P.C. Smith
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Cyril Conway
as Dr. Mansfield
Valentine Dyall
Valentine Dyall
as Dr. Fell
Merle Tottenham
Merle Tottenham
as Alice
Constance Smith
Constance Smith
as Molly Musgrave
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Christine Silver
as Mrs. Musgrave

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
London, England, UK
Production
Hammer Films

🏷️ Keywords

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🎯 Categories

CrimeDrama

⭐ Featured Review

On the Night of the Fire
by richardchatten β€’ 2024-07-10
6/10

"People are usually unaware that when Hammer Films were originally making films under their earlier name Exclusive they already produced a number of films that qualified as fantasy and horror. One of these was 'Room to Let' - based on a radio play by Margery Allingham - which featured the further exploits of a killer explicitly identified as Jack the Ripper (identifiable according to witnesses by his distinctively laboured breathing, but which the audience never actually hears) updated fifteen years later to the Edwardian era in a subject to which Hammer would return twenty years lat..."

πŸ’‘ Did You Know?

This is the first of three Hammer films to use Jack the Ripper as its subject matter. The other two were Hands of the Ripper (1971) and Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971).

πŸ“– Synopsis

In London in 1904, neighbours begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may in fact be the infamous Jack the Ripper.