Murder by Decree (1979) on Netflix
With the Metropolitan Police unable to catch Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes takes on the murders of prostitutes in Whitechapel. Dr. John Watson and the medium Robert Lees assist him.
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Plot summary
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons. Homes races to save the life of Annie Crook who has been forcibly incarcerated in an insane asylum and that of her friend Mary Kelly, in whom she has entrusted her secret.
Cast
- Catherine Kessleras Carrie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Murder by Decree (1979)
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The script follows Stephen Knight's 1976 book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution, which argued the killings were a Masonic plot, and originally used the real suspects' names, Sir William Gull and John Netley. In the finished film they became the invented Thomas Spivey and William Slade.- Renaming the real Ripper suspects Sir William Gull and John Netley as fictional stand-ins became a device other Ripper fiction copied, among them the graphic novel From Hell.
